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

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JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well. And that’s more standard. Tacara: I agree.

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