Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Hospice-Paramedic Partnerships Reduce ER Visits

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, [...]
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