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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

Hospice News

Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. The post Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin appeared first on Hospice News.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Home Care Agencies Must Achieve Interoperability

AlayaCare

When the spectrum of a client’s care team shares real-time information, that client’s needs are clearly understood, resulting in fewer interventions and a better quality of life. Why Interoperability Is Important in Home Care. Statistics bear that out: a 2019 survey found that only about one-third of U.S.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Home Care Agencies Must Achieve Interoperability

AlayaCare

When the spectrum of a client’s care team shares real-time information, that client’s needs are clearly understood, resulting in fewer interventions and a better quality of life. It’s imperative that home care agencies gather accurate , updated client health data that can be used to make informed clinical decisions.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

Hospice News

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. Among the 1.6

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. Death doulas can help facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discussing advance care planning, hospice election and advocate for the patient’s wishes in their final days. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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Hospice the Next Generation: How the Benefit Could Change

Hospice News

To an extent, it has also segregated hospice from the rest of the health care system. Now, catalysts are at work that could spur gradual movement towards system integration and care coordination. Among these forces are regulation, technology, the prevalence of certain diagnoses and value-based payment models.

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Population Health, Quality, and Palliative Care: The Role of Public and Private Payors

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By Lama El Zein There is an increasingly broad push for a movement towards improving the quality of care at a lower cost for everyone, but especially for patients with serious illnesses, given the historically high cost of their care. Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings. 2019.13978