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Former VITAS Manager Becomes VP of Operations; Hawaii E.D. Doc Turns Hospice Medical Director

Hospice News

The home health and hospice provider employs roughly 9,509 staff nationwide and reached an average daily census of 17,360 patients in the second quarter of this year. Kauai Hospice Recruits Retired Emergency Doc as Medical Director. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4% that year.

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

GeriPal

Today’s podcast is part one of a two-part podcast where we spend a day at CMF, a medium security prison located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the hospice unit housed inside its walls. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: That was perfect.

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