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Hospice & Community Care Affiliates with Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

Hospice News

These can represent significant expenses for hospice and palliative care providers in today’s reimbursement climate. Hospice & Community Care also has two office locations in the state, along with a 24-bed inpatient center, a residential center and a bereavement facility, the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss.

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Counseling Awareness Month

AT Home Care & Hospice

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies.

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Explaining Hospice Care to Your Patients

Traditions Health

General inpatient care: Care that is provided if the patient has severe pain or symptoms that require a more advanced level of care and treatment that is more effective during a short stay at an acute care hospital, inpatient hospice facility, or long-term care facility.

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Why Choose Traditions Health?

Traditions Health

Experienced Care Teams Our care teams are made up of a wide range of professionals and volunteers who care for the whole person, which means that we recognize and address emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual needs.

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Common Questions About Hospice Care

Traditions Health

This type of care enables a patient to live their last days with dignity, support, grace, and with as much purpose as possible. Hospice care can be provided wherever a person resides. This may include a personal residence or a long-term care facility.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

This was actually a bereaved person, and they said that because their person had planted those tulips it reminded them constantly of them. If you can’t do that, the only alternative that we have in our system is to pick up the phone and call somebody, to go to the emergency room or go to long-term care.

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The Ups and Downs of Inpatient Hospice Care: New Facilities Open as Others Close

Hospice News

Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. The hospice provider also offers pet and music therapy, as well as bereavement support services.