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Provider Partnerships Driving Palliative Care Growth

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More primary care providers are seeing community-based palliative care as an opportunity to bridge gaps among underserved populations, such as seriously ill patients in rural regions, according to Baumgardner. One is in our joint venture partners that are already in the high-acuity space, such as those offering hospital-at-home [care].

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

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Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

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We are an in-home care company. We provide personal care, skilled home health, palliative care, hospice care, and behavioral health. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. I have provided home and community-based services for 35 years.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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, what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. ’ And these people you’ve never met, in a care model you’ve never heard of, will come to your home and do the hospital care at home.

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