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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

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Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. We are starting a palliative care program in the state of Arizona.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.”

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

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That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. Families were struggling to manage the death of their loved ones unsupported at home. The Merkels keenly felt the lack of compassionate care options for the dying. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.

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