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Hospice Closes Inpatient Facility To Trim Budget

Published on Fri Aug 02, 2013

You may have to consider some painful budget cutting to survive sequestration and the other cuts Medicare has in store for you. For example: Hospice & Community Care in Lancaster, Pa. has closed one of its inpatient locations, resulting in a layoff of 19 workers, reports the Intelligencer Journal. The hospice will save about $800,000 annually with the consolidation, it [...]
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