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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. SEIU benchmarked HCA’s hospice transfer rates against national data. It’s hard to say that you have proof. This looks really questionable.”

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

I think the last time we had you on was 2022. Eric: I remember in particular one of the things you said is that we’ve had this explosive growth in inpatient palliative care, but the large majority of evidence that we’ve had for palliative care really comes from outpatient settings. Eric: Thank you for the song.