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Addus Completes Tennessee Quality Care Deal, Anticipates More Transactions

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Tennessee Quality Care is a portfolio company of American Health Partners, which operates companies in the home health and hospice; long term care, senior living and rehabilitation industries, as well as behavioral health care. This is a projected 37% increase from 2017. Census Bureau.

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Forks Community Hospital Launches Palliative Care Program Amid Financial Struggles

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Most of the hospital’s revenue shortfall comes from its long-term care facility — a 20-bed outfit. Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland saw costs fall by almost a third after implementing a similar program, according to a 2017 report in Mathematica Policy Research. Some research supports that prediction.

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Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

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“We really do see the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives — especially as people are aging — and you think of the costs associated with leaving their homes and going into assisted living or a long-term care environment,” Tricia Ford, vice president of operations for Care Synergy, told Hospice News. “In

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

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percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services. percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506).

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

A main reason more hospices are eyeing PACE services centers around an opportunity to diversify revenue streams and reach patients sooner in their disease trajectories, says Samantha Black, executive director of PACE services at TRU Community Care. The Colorado-based hospice provider began offering PACE programming in 2017.

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Post-acute care (PAC) represents an important component of the healthcare delivery system in the United States, with the Medicare fee-for-service program spending more than $57 billion on these services in 2019 (The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), 2021a). UPAC is associated with aims from IMPACT.

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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Noted in its stated objectives the CMS National Quality Strategy takes a person-centered approach to quality and safety and seeks to improve the overall care journey as individuals move across the continuum of care, from home- or community-based settings to hospitals and post-acute care. This all sounds great, right?

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