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

Hospice News

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”