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The Elizabeth Hospice is accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. [ 3 ] The Elizabeth Hospice Children's Bereavement Center opened in 2014 and serves more than 500 children through group sessions, school programs and a summer camp. [ 4 ]
California End of Life Option Act is a law enacted in June 2016 by the California State Legislature which allows terminally ill adult residents in the state of California to access medical aid in dying by self-administering lethal drugs, provided specific circumstances are met. [1]
Patients in hospice have primarily been elderly; according to the 2006 Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging, more than 80% of hospice patients in the United States are over 65. [44] But hospice care is available to all age groups, including those under 21. Not all hospices are able to serve every population.
Over 40% of all dying patients in the United States currently undergo hospice care. [19] Most of the hospice care occurs at a home environment during the last weeks/months of their lives. Of those patients, 86.6% believe their care is "excellent". [19] Hospice's philosophy is that death is a part of life, so it is personal and unique.
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A hospice opened in 1980 in Harare (Salisbury), Zimbabwe, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa. [40] In spite of skepticism in the medical community, [38] the hospice movement spread, and in 1987 the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa formed. [41] In 1990, Nairobi Hospice opened in Nairobi, Kenya. [41]
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California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.