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Florence Wald (April 19, 1917 – November 8, 2008) was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement". [1][2] She led the founding of Connecticut Hospice, the first hospice program in the United States. Late in life, Wald became interested in the provision of ...
This growth has accompanied the AIDS epidemic and the aging of the population, with related illnesses. By 1995, hospices were a $2.8 billion industry, with $1.9 billion from Medicare alone funding patients in 1,857 hospice programs with Medicare certification. [7] In that year, 72% of hospice providers were non-profit. [7]
The measure allowed for the establishment of for-profit hospices, just so long as the entity had been incorporated before 1978. Westbrook’s hospice was one of three in the state that fit that description. The new law guaranteed he would have the only for-profit hospice operating in two densely populated counties, Dade and Broward.
Over the last decade, the hospice industry has quadrupled in size. There are now more than 4,000 hospices in the U.S., serving more than 1 million patients a year. A majority of hospices are now operated as for-profit entities, a departure from hospice’s beginning as a niche service offered by charitable concerns.
Ira Robert Byock (/ ˈ b aɪ ɒ k / BYE-ok; [4] born February 13, 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is an American physician, author, and advocate for palliative care.He is founder and chief medical officer of the Providence St. Joseph Health Institute for Human Caring in Torrance, California, and holds appointments as active emeritus professor of medicine and professor of community health and family ...
Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering. Hospice care provides an alternative to therapies focused on life ...
Movement. Hospice movement. Awards. People of the Year 1987. Pearl Phelan, Sr Joseph Ignatius (11 February 1921 – 4 December 2010) was a nurse and pioneer of person-centred hospice care, known to many as "Aunt Pearl". [1][2] In her role at Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross, Dublin, she modernised the facility and transformed end-of-life ...
Christine Longaker is the former director of the Hospice of Santa Cruz County (California) and is considered a pioneer in the hospice movement. She has provided trainings in caring for the dying around the world since 1978. She co-designed Naropa University ’s accredited training in ‘Contemplative End-of-Life Care’, [1] and is the author ...