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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News. In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia.