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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

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The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. In February that year we got our corporation licenses for a business and in November we became Medicare-certified. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

High Peaks Hospice

That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012.

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