Hospice News June 17, 2024
Dr. Joe Rotella, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), calls on hospices to maintain their core principles amid a churning sea of regulatory and economic changes.
Rotella began his medical career as a primary care physician in a small, rural town in central New Hampshire, where he stayed for 12 years. In time, he felt drawn to the patients with serious illness, those who probably weren’t going to get better. He saw health care practitioners “running away” from patients like these and began to wonder who was running toward them.
By 1999, this had led him to a new career, beginning as a medical director in a community-based program in Kentucky. Now, Rotella...
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