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Amedisys Going Full-Speed Ahead on New JV Strategy

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based home health and hospice provider. . Driving this renewed interest is the company’s June 2021 purchase of Tennessee-based Contessa Health for $250 million. Tennessee-based Contessa Health provides high-acuity services such as hospital-at-home and skilled-nursing-at-home services.

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‘Bring It On’: Hospices Willing to ‘Take Hits’ from Regulators to Ensure Ethical, Quality Care

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Hospice News recently sat down with McSpadden to discuss how hospices view the intensifying regulatory pressure in California, as well as how they are responding and what’s needed to raise the bar on quality care. Patients and families are having terrible end-of-life care experiences, or no experience at all.

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Health Systems Adapt to Changing Environment by Expanding Hospice, Home-Based Care

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Initiatives like these allow health systems the opportunity to not only capitalize on growing demand, but also to address a more comprehensive range of their patients’ health needs in the setting that most prefer, according to Angel Vargas, vice president of Care at Home for Kaiser Permanente. billion in 2021. Census Bureau.

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