Home Health & Hospice Week

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Study Warns Of Setting Transitions For Hospice Patients

Add one more indicator to your hospice quality list. Care transitions after hospice admission vary significantly among geographic areas, notes a new study in the Feb. 17 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Of 311,090 Medicare hospice patients who died between July and December 2011, 31,675 (10.2 percent) had at least one transition after hospice enrollment, and this varied substantially [...]
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