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In these early months of 2020, we were operating in the present amidst a pandemic while making plans for the immediate future.
To understand the future, we need to look back at the history of our organization. Over the past 20 years, Community Hospice & Palliative Care created and launched non-hospice programs to help adults and children earlier in their disease progression by focusing on quality-of-life care. For example, we were the first hospice agency in our primary service area to launch palliative care, one of the first in the nation to launch a pediatric palliative and hospice care program, and one of a select few in the nation chosen to pilot Medicare’s Care Choices, a program for people who qualify for hospice care but wish to continue curative treatments. Over the years, lessons from these programs helped us create PACE Partners of Northeast Florida, a joint venture with senior care expert Aging True and its Cathedral Foundation. PACE stands for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, and the program is designed to provide comprehensive medical and social services to frail elderly people who are certified to live in a nursing home but choose to stay at home.
Plans for a VIP reception and ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of The PACE Place center on our Acosta-Rua campus in March were thwarted by the news of the pandemic, but the center opened as scheduled to care for the program’s participants. PACE Partners of Northeast Florida is the only program of its kind in North Florida and one of only five in the state.
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