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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA analyzed data from 147 studies that addressed trends in palliative, hospice and advance care planning utilization among non-Hispanic Black communities nationwide. The study was funded in part by the U.S.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And people are getting life sentences. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility?

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. Don’t use the, you know, nursing magazine articles or, or. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6 billion over five years.