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Hospices Gear Up to Reach More Heart Failure Patients, Enhance Quality 

Hospice News

As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Kristen Schaefer, vice president and associate chief medical officer at Care Dimensions, indicated. Recently, the Chemed Corp.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

In a 2011 paper published in Pediatrics , authors pointed to increased survival rates of infants born prematurely, those with various congenital anomalies or chronic conditions, as well as children who today are more likely to survive cancer and other illnesses. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said.