Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
HHA, Hospice Merge In CA
Published on Fri Mar 08, 2013
Pioneer Home Health Care, Inc. and Hospice of The Owens Valley in Bishop, Calif., have merged under Pioneer’s name, reports the Inyo Register. Pioneer needed a hospice program and the hospice needed help with regulatory and other demands, the newspaper reports. Pioneer aims to secure Medicare certification for the hospice program by July, according to Administrator Pat West.
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