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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Hospice News

The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

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One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. We say that we can skip and modify the care plan. Now, they’re eight miles away.

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