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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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Palliative care has become a more sought-after treatment plan in recent years, and one agency in California has led the charge in advancing palliative care support among its population. Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

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Years ago, I thought the customer service side of things in the hospice industry could use some improvement. That, coupled with the increasing age of the [nation’s] population, led me and my wife to start Blue Monarch Hospice. . I often saw slow response times as patients waited sometimes days for nurses to provide care.

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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

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.” They want to know how quickly we can have a goals-of-care conversation with the patient. Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week social worker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist.