Home Health & Hospice Week
Another Alaska HHA Closes Its Doors
Just as access to home health and hospice eases in one part of Alaska, it worsens in another. The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is closing its home health agency in Sitka, radio station KCAW reports. The agency was originally started under the Sitka Community Hospital, which SEARHC acquired in 2019. SEARHC is closing the office “mainly due to federal regulations that make operating it challenging and inefficient,” according to KCAW. “It concerns me that this is driven by money, rather than by medical needs of people,” says Cindy Litman, whose husband received home health before his death. Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau launched a home health and hospice a program this month, after not having one since last fall (see HHHW by AAPC, Vol. XXXII, No. 29).
Home Health & Hospice Week
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