TIME TO EDUCATE, ADVOCATE AND ACT TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF HOSPICE Click on the image or the PDF to download the white paper. Hospice patients are among the most vulnerable in healthcare today. As they face the end of…
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PATIENT CARE QUALITY The Live-Discharge Rate According to The Washington Post, which has published an extensive series of investigative reports under the title, “The Business of Dying,” more than one in three patients are being discharged from…
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PATIENT CARE QUALITY Recruiting healthier patients Research studies by The Washington Post, the federal government and other organizations indicate that some for-profit hospices are enrolling patients who are not terminal.14 This allows these hospices to collect the…
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PATIENT CARE QUALITY Less Training for Hospice Care Providers Other tactics for reducing expenditures at the for-profit hospices, according to the research, included hiring fewer professionally trained staff members, recruiting new graduates who would work for lower…
ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE, TRANSPARENCY TO ENSURE QUALITY HOSPICE CARE FOR ALL Providing all terminally ill patients with compassionate, quality care at the end of life was the vision of Dame Saunders and is the commitment not-for-profit hospices have made to…