Home Health & Hospice Week

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Hospice Access A Problem For Kidney Dialysis Patients

Medicare patients on chronic kidney dialysis have “woefully poor access to hospice care,” says a study published by University of Washington School of Medicine researchers in Health Affairs. Of the patients studied, “fewer than one in four patients enrolled in hospice, quite low compared with the almost 50 percent hospice-enrollment rate of Medicare’s overall population,” says a UW release about [...]
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