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American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, professional organization in Glenview, Illinois; Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, non-profit in Jacksonville, Florida; Gentiva Health Services, national provider of hospice and home health services; Hospice Palliative Care Ontario, professional organization in Ontario, Canada
General inpatient care is an intensive level of care which may be provided in a nursing home, a specially contracted hospice bed or unit in a hospital, or in a free-standing hospice unit. [65] General inpatient criterion is for patients who are experiencing severe symptoms which require daily interventions from the hospice team to manage. [60]
VITAS® Healthcare is a provider [1] of end-of-life care in the United States. Operating 53 hospice programs in 15 states and the District of Columbia, [2] VITAS employs 11,000 professionals and serves an average daily census of more than 21,000 patients, according to the company's website. [3]
The information presented in this map reflects the results of hospice inspections provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the hospice industry’s federal regulator, in response to a public records request. The time period covers Jan. 2, 2004, to Oct. 16, 2014.
The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work. She also developed the first hospice care as well in the US in 1974 - Connecticut Hospice. [3]
The first modern free-standing hospice in China opened in Shanghai in 1988. [73] The first hospice unit in Taiwan, where the term for hospice translates as "peaceful care", opened in 1990. [38] [74] The first free-standing hospice in Hong Kong, where the term for hospice translates as "well-ending service", opened in 1992. [38] [75]
They are one of the largest home health providers and second largest hospice care provider in the United States. Amedisys provides in-home skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech language pathology, medical social work, home aides, and hospice and bereavement services, with 11 million patient care visits in 2011. [4]
Gentiva Health Services is a provider of home health care, hospice, and related health services in the United States.The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.Prior to its October 2014 acquisition by Kindred Healthcare, it was a Fortune 1000 company with over $1.7 billion in annual revenue and a member of the S&P 600 index.