Jimmy carter

"A misconception is that the average length of stay in hospice is for the last several days of someone's life," explains Jonathan Fleece, president and CEO of Empath Health, one of the largest not-for-profit hospice organizations in the country. "The average length of stay nationally is in the 60- to 70-day range." Former President Jimmy Carter. John Bazemore, Pool/AP Fleece, who co-authored the book, The New Health Age: The Future of Health Care in America, notes that hospice was made eligible for Medicare reimbursement under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 — which was passed into law under Carter himself.

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Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born Oct. 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter, a registered nurse. He was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine. On July 7, 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. When his father died in 1953, he resigned his naval commission and returned with his family to Georgia. He took over the Carter farms, and he and Rosalynn operated Carter's Warehouse, a general-purpose seed and farm supply company in Plains. He quickly became a leader of the community, serving on county boards supervising education, the hospital authority, and the library. In 1962 he won election to the Georgia Senate. He lost his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966, but won the ...

NORCROSS, Ga.— Three months after entering end-of-life care at home, former President Carter remains in good spirits as he visits with family, follows public discussion of his legacy and receives updates on the Carter Center’s humanitarian work around the world, his grandson says. He’s even enjoying ice cream regularly. “They’re just meeting with family right now, but they’re doing it in the best possible way: the two of them together at home,” Jason Carter said of the former president, “They’ve been together “In that way,” he added, the situation is “as good as it can be.” “That’s been one of the blessings of the last couple of months,” Jason Carter said after speaking Tuesday at an event honoring his grandfather. “He is certainly getting to see the outpouring, and it’s been gratifying to him for sure.” The former president also gets updates on the Carter Center’s And in less serious moments, he also continues to enjoy peanut butter ice cream, his preferred flavor, in keeping with his political brand as a peanut farmer, his grandson said. Andrew Young, who served as Carter’s ambassador to the U.N., told the AP that he recently visited the Carters and was “very pleased we could laugh and joke about old times.” Young and Jason Carter joined other friends and admirers of the former president on Tuesday at a celebration of his service, held along Jimmy Carter Boulevard in suburban Norcross, just northeast of Atlanta. Young said the setting — in one of the most racially and et...

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