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Memory Care Residents See Higher Mortality, Hospice Utilization Rates

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Patients in assisted living-based memory care facilities have higher mortality rates and are more likely to enroll in hospice, a new study indicates. We find a higher mortality rate and higher rate of hospice use among memory-care residential care/assisted living residents,” the study authors wrote. This is compared to 4.3%

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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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. About 12% of the 2.1 Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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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. Primary care is where it’s at.” Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Hospices See Growth Opportunities with Physician Offices, Memory Care

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The nonprofit hospice in 2016 affiliated with Hospice of Michigan, with each organization continuing to operate independently. Skilled nursing and assisted living facilities were the top two opportunities for referral growth, according to more than half of the Hospice News survey respondents.

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Excel Hospice Owner Sentenced to 18 Years for Fraud, Kickbacks

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The couple allegedly paid $2 million in kickbacks to multiple parties in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, including payments to employees of hospitals, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, as well as spouses of those individuals, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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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. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Executive Moves at UnitedHealth Group, Treasure Coast Hospice

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Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Abdo has led the Louisiana State University’s geriatric medicine fellowship program since 2016. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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