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Awareness, Education Keys to Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” McKinnis also has a private therapy practice and previously served as the director of patient and family support and grief services for the North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons.

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‘Upgrading’ the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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“These restrictions are closely tied to the two most common reasons for a live discharge from hospice: decertification — when a patient is removed from hospice care due to a stabilized condition; or revocation — when a patient chooses to leave hospice care to seek curative care,” the authors wrote.

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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

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The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. In the midst of this personal tragedy, a public debate unfolds.

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The Roles of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care

Shining Light Hospice

The Roles of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on providing comfort and support to patients and families during the end-of-life process. What Is Hospice Care?

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. HopeHealth is also a hospice and palliative medicine teaching affiliate for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The numbers were pretty striking.

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HAP Foundation Launches to Research and Advance Hospice, Palliative Care

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.” The new institution carries on the work of the Illinois-based JourneyCare Foundation, an affiliate of the former JourneyCare Hospice that supported community-based palliative and hospice care for patients without insurance or who lacked sufficient resources to pay for services.

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Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

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Longer stays yield greater savings Regulators have fixed their gaze on longer hospice stays as signals of potential fraud, waste and abuse. Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 Representatives from NHPCO, NAHC, NORC, along with hospice providers VITAS Healthcare and Delaware Hospice, presented the data during the briefing.

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