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Success Stories by Topic: Hospice and palliative care

  • Timely Life Care Project
    May 2009
    The project funded 4,320 patient visits, and there was increased understanding among many in the area’s health care system of the value of palliative care in reducing acute care recidivism, the length of hospital stays, and emergency room and doctor’s office visits.