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“The admission and marketing staff would tell them, ‘This is the new hospice, we are not for dying people, the rules have changed, we can just help you.’” This type of aggressive marketing, a hallmark of the for-profit companies, has changed the industry. Initially, hospice was mostly considered a refuge for cancer patients.
This year, five more California hospitals have stopped providing obstetric care, and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital will be the fifth in L.A. County to close labor and delivery within a two-year period.
St. David’s is one of 182 hospitals in the U.S. and the U.K. operated by HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest hospital chain. HCA is highly profitable — last year it earned $5.6 billion ...
A group of California health care workers are pressuring Dignity Health to reverse on proposed cutbacks. The workers are members of the Service Employees International Union, which represents ...
Once a patient is on continuous care, the hospice provides services in the home a minimum of eight hours a day. [60] Because the criteria for continuous care are similar to general inpatient care, and due to the challenges a hospice can face with staffing extended day care in the home, continuous care is intended to be used for short periods of ...
The information presented in this map reflects the results of hospice inspections provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the hospice industry’s federal regulator, in response to a public records request. The time period covers Jan. 2, 2004, to Oct. 16, 2014.
Within the hospice industry, not surprisingly, there is mixed support for a regulatory system that includes more sanctions. Tray Wade, the chief executive officer at HCI Care Services, a nonprofit hospice in Iowa that is in the group of the 50 top violators, said he would welcome more guidance and intermediate penalties short of termination.
Dignity Health was the fifth-largest hospital system in the nation and the largest not-for-profit hospital provider in California. [1] Formerly a Catholic institution, the organization went independent in 2012 and adopted its new name. In February 2019, Dignity Health merged with Catholic Health Initiatives, becoming CommonSpirit Health. [2]