Industry Note:
Hospice-Paramedic Partnerships Reduce ER Visits
Published on Fri Mar 17, 2017
Hospices looking for ways to reduce their costs and build better relationships with their hospital referral partners may want to research “community parademic” programs. Programs in Ventura, Calif. (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXV, No. 10), Fort Worth, Texas, and New York City are seeing success in keeping hospice patients out of the emergency room and hospital at end of life, [...]