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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). Care Dimensions is among the 15 hospice organizations to date that have secured the AHA’s Palliative and Hospice Heart Failure Certification.

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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.