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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. Either they go down continuous home care or somebody comes to the home, or they go into GIP, or they are a live discharge and get admitted to the acute care hospital. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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