2012 Home care Medical director Medicare 
Hospice News
MARCH 12, 2024
The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.
Hospice News
MARCH 25, 2024
We started initially as a home health agency [Southland Home Care], then sold it in 2020 and began talking about opening a hospice. 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.
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. Families were struggling to manage the death of their loved ones unsupported at home. The Merkels keenly felt the lack of compassionate care options for the dying. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.
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