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RHHI Releases NCLOS Stats.

Published on Mon Oct 04, 2010

• You can find out where you fall in relation to your peers when it comes to hospice lengths of stay for non-cancer patients, thanks to updated LOS information from RHHI Palmetto GBA. The condition with the longest average length of stay is Alzheimer's, with an average of 203 days, says Palmetto in its update for data from January through June of this year. The shortest LOS goes to renal with 42 days, on average. For links to NCLOS information broken out by conditions, regions, states, and more, e-mail editor Rebecca Johnson at rebeccaj@eliresearch.com with "NCLOS Rates" in the subject line.
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