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Hospice Care Saves Medicare Lots of Money, Study Finds
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- October 28, 2024
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Hospice care is a compassionate and heartfelt enterprise, involving a medical team dedicated to maintaining a person’s comfort and dignity as they face the final curtain.
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New ER Program Helped More Patients Get Needed Hospice Care
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
- July 9, 2024
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One hospital's push to transition patients who are nearing the end of life from the emergency room to hospice care appears to be working.
After the program went into effect, 54% of ER patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston transitioned to hospice care within ...
Jimmy Carter 'Happy' in At-Home Hospice Care as 99th Birthday Nears
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- September 29, 2023
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Former President Jimmy Carter turned quite a few heads last week when he made a surprise visit to the Plains Peanut Festival in Georgia.
Carter, who turns 99 on Sunday, decided back in February "to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care...
Former President Jimmy Carter in Good Spirits 3 Months Into Hospice Care
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- May 24, 2023
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Former President Jimmy Carter continues to be in good spirits and to enjoy his favorite peanut butter ice cream at home, three months after he began hospice care.
The 98-y...
What Exactly Is Hospice Care?
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- March 1, 2023
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When former President Jimmy Carter recently entered home hospice care after many years of cancer treatment, it was an invitation for families across America to consider how they would like to spend their final days.
For-Profit Hospices Often Deliver Worse Care: Study
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- February 27, 2023
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Patients spending the end of their lives in for-profit hospices receive substantially worse care than those who are in nonprofit hospices, a new study claims.
To come to that conclusion, RAND Corp. researchers analyzed surveys completed by people whose loved ones had sp...
Few Countries Do Well Caring for the Dying
- Robert Preidt
- January 21, 2022
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Americans don't like to dwell on dying, so maybe it isn't surprising that compared to other nations, the United States does just a middling job of providing a good death.
The United States ranked in the middle of 81 countries rated on how well their health care systems p...