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Queen City Hospice Expands in Rural Ohio with New Office

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Queen City Hospice provides end-of-life care in six counties across the Cincinnati area in the southwest part of the state. We want the end of the life journey for people to be the best it can be and as comfortable as it can be,” Ballard said. “If

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Hospice Operators Watching Closely as Large Payers Transform the Industry

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The company has signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s (KAH) hospice and personal care business to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for $2.8 We are here for patient care. End-of-life care grew out of a great American crusade for social change.

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

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“We are committed to continuing the highest level of care for seniors by ensuring all unique needs can be met and that every resident receives the best care for themselves and their family,” Myers said in a statement. “We Baptist Senior Family offers hospice, home care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation and personal care services.

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NHPCO’s Interim CEO Marcantonio: Hospice Benefit Must Evolve

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I was looking at that as an option that really brought all the pieces together, because hospice care is really about whole-person care: all the emotional, medical and spiritual needs of the individual. . PCHETA will really help us to grow, improve and sustain the hospice and palliative care workforce long-term.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Well that all changes today as we’ve invited the world’s foremost expert in dignity at the end of life, Dr. Here’s a little bit.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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There was a little bit of teaching about end of life care. And for example, there’s still in most medical schools no required rotation in palliative care. I think there’s data that shows that there have been improvements in end of life care. And there was some teaching about pain.