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Empath Health Launches New PACE Center

Hospice News

The center offers seniors access to primary care, therapies, skilled care, social and emotional support and day care at the Empath LIFE Day Center and Medical Clinic; in-home care and support and transportation to and from Empath LIFE or other approved specialists. That eliminates fragmented care.”

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

So building our health care system on this idea — and it’s true, not only in hospice but in any home care and child care. We just assume that the families are equipped to keep a person at home, but we don’t do anything to make that happen. I propose that is the social worker.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

Khai Nguyen: As a National Medical Director at CHAP, I draw from the clinical experiences I’ve been so fortunate to have as a geriatrician, mostly in the community care setting. We struggled in the home care setting due to his morbidity and illness, and that is something I experienced on a very intimate level.