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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

These data trends are especially concerning since HCA has been rapidly expanding in the hospice/home health space in recent years. Clinician accounts Independent of SEIU’s research, NBC News on Wednesday released its own investigation into HCA’s hospice discharge practices.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Stepped-wedge is… It’s easier with a visual, but it simply means, at its core with two groups, that every hospital in our case starts in routine care or whatever the usual care definition is and will ultimately, in a randomized fashion, transition to adopt the intervention in steps, meaning over time. months, excuse me.