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Patients in hospice have primarily been elderly; according to the 2006 Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging, more than 80% of hospice patients in the United States are over 65. [44] But hospice care is available to all age groups, including those under 21. Not all hospices are able to serve every population.
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Gentiva Health Services is a provider of home health care, hospice, and related health services in the United States.The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.Prior to its October 2014 acquisition by Kindred Healthcare, it was a Fortune 1000 company with over $1.7 billion in annual revenue and a member of the S&P 600 index.
But the explosive growth of hospice is also attributable to an all-out marketing blitz by hospice companies eager to keep patient counts high, HuffPost found. “The pressure was direct from operations on a daily basis,” said James Robbins, a former sales manager at AseraCare Hospice, a chain operating in 19 states.
Odyssey Healthcare, Inc. (now operating as a subsidiary of Gentiva Health Services, Inc.) is a for-profit provider of hospice services that was co-founded in 1995 by Richard R. Burnham, David Steffy, and David Gasmire. The company was a health care startup that opened its first hospice location in 1996. [1]
A Hospice House in Missouri. Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering.
Headquarters. Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans).
From 1998 to 2011 the hospital was known as Trillium Health Centre Mississauga. [2] The name was reverted to Mississauga Hospital following Trillium Health Centre's merger with Credit Valley Hospital on December 1, 2011, to form Trillium Health Partners .