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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

Hospice News

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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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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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Hospice News

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. Fleece began his career as a health care lawyer. I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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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.