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Bartlett Regional Hospital Gets Green Light to Take Over Hospice Services, Executives Step Down

Hospice News

The home health and hospice provider’s additional services included bereavement care, as well as free medical equipment loans for wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, bath benches, bedside commodes or canes. HHCJ received Medicare certification in 2006 and was operated by Catholic Community Services prior to its closure.

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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

Unlike traditional health insurance, which primarily focuses on medical treatments, long-term care insurance focuses on the daily activities that an individual may struggle with due to age, injury, or illness. Long-term care insurance covers things like adult day care services, home modifications and care coordination (or management).

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

However, after watching a group of tiny 7-year-olds wake before the sun with smiles, joyfully clean stalls, bathe their ponies, and ride with pride, I was changing my tune to, “Girl, your horse friends are solid people.”. Their constant support for each other: “We don’t care who wins. Bathe, shovel, graze your horse, anything at all?”

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.