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Home Health & Hospice Week
2014 Newsletter
Reader Question: What's Wrong With Mailing Postcards To Patients?
Home Health & Hospice Week
Reader Question:
What's Wrong With Mailing Postcards To Patients?
Published on Fri Dec 05, 2014
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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Reader Question:
What's Wrong With Mailing Postcards To Patients?
Tip: Shell out the bucks for envelopes. Question: We would like to send out postcards [...]
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