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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

Throughout Maryland and the surrounding areas, including Montgomery County and Prince George’s County, we provide compassionate and experienced in-home care services that allow our clients to age in place with grace and dignity. Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults.

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The Difference Between Palliative Care & Hospice Care

Traditions Health

While palliative care can be offered in the home, palliative care is commonly offered as a part of a comprehensive care program, alongside medical care, in an extended healthcare facility or nursing home. For more details, check with your insurance company, doctor, or palliative care provider.

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How Hospice Supports Families

1-800-HOSPICE

More and more people are choosing to die at home. Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. 24/7 On-call Hospice Nurse.

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). What was this group’s aim you ask? Project Overview.

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7 Proven Ways to Improve Your Hospice CAHPS Scores

Hospice Nurse Hero

First, CAHPS stands for Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. Secondly, the scores from this survey are followed and recorded by Medicare. Table based on data measures from the Medicare Compare website. WHAT DOES MEDICARE CAHPS REPORT? Perhaps your patient wants to take a bed bath and not a shower.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.