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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 million primary care visits in 2016. A watchword for many value-based payment models is care coordination.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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‘We oftentimes come in on the palliative care side for patients who maybe haven’t seen a physician for the last 10 years, because they’re not able to get out of their home, and there’s no resources available to them for home-based primary care,” Dado told Hospice News. “I million primary care visits in 2016.

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Executive Moves at UnitedHealth Group, Treasure Coast Hospice

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Treasure Coast Hospice Appoints VP of Medical Services Florida-based Treasure Coast Hospice has tapped Dr. John Crouch as its new vice president of medical services. Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization.

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Empath Health’s New Chief Medical Executives, HopeWest CEO Retires

Hospice News

Prior to HopeWest, Mitchell served as chief operating officer at Kentucky-based Bluegrass Care Navigators. She has worked in health care for 27 years as a certified nursing assistant and registered nurse, and has provided hospice care to thousands of patients and their families during that time. Jet Health Inc.,

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St. Croix’s Strategic Executive Moves; NHPCO’s Ben Marcantonio Named Goodwin Living’s Board VP

Hospice News

Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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What do we know about the differences between the two types of organizations when we’re thinking about hospice care? One is the patient population and a targeting of for-profit hospices around patients who are going to be potentially less costly and more profitable. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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