Home Health & Hospice Week

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SNF-Hospice Care Combo Keeps Patients From Dying In Hospitals, Study Finds

A combination of skilled nursing facility and hospice care reduces dementia patients’ likelihood to die in a hospital, according to a study by Susan Miller of Brown University, which was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dementia patients receiving SNF and hospice care concurrently were 78 percent less likely to die in a hospital than those without [...]
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