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Hospice, Home Health Providers ‘Squeezing Turnips’ Competing for Clinical Staff

Hospice News

Amid workforce shortages, hospice and home health providers are often at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other health care organizations that can have greater financial resources, according to Bill English, president and CEO of Accurate Home Care.

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Will the Real Nurse Please Stand Up? 

Daily Nurse

Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery?

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Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

For example, a patient may be hospice-eligible, but they may come on to home health because that’s all they know about. While they were in home health, nurses would observe them declining clinically, and I would go visit them and talk to them about hospice care or talk to them about our palliative program.

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