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Redwood Area Hospital
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FROM: Shelly Pauling, Education & Communications Manager
RE: Hospice Department Recently Surveyed
DATE: August 1, 2007
The Redwood Area Hospital would like to announce that the
Hospice Department was surveyed in June and was found to be in
full compliance with Federal certification regulations.
Items typically reviewed during the survey include: policies and
procedures, employee education records, hospice bereavement
program and follow-up support offered to families, as well as
visits with nurses to patients currently utilizing hospice
services.
The Hospice program at the Redwood Area Hospital has served
terminally ill people of all ages in Redwood Falls and the
surrounding area and has been Medicare Certified since March of
1990.
The Hospice program has nurses (RN’s and LPN’s), social workers,
home health aides, home makers, and volunteers to offer help and
support during a difficult time in peoples lives.
If you would like more information about the Hospice program at
the Redwood Area Hospital, please call 507-637-4579. |
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