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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/11/24 (Issue #33)

PulmCCM

Ascension and UPenn test automatic palliative care consults Palliative care programs are sometimes pitched to administrators on the basis of their potential to reduce costs, by shortening length-of-stay or intensity of expensive and unhelpful therapies at the end of life. There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8%

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American Physican Partners’ Closing Raises Questions

ACEP Now

With a quick crowdsourcing effort in collaboration with Ivy Clinicians, ACEP was able to map most of these hospitals’ new contracts and used our influence to put pressure on the administrators to be accountable and consider many of ACEP’s long-standing policies as they move forward. View the letter at acep.org/APPletter.