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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.
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
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]
A HuffPost analysis of more recent data, from the years 2009 to 2012, found that the percentage of inspection and complaint reports citing a deficiency was even higher: 55 percent. Twenty hospice providers, including Vitas’ Atlanta operation, were cited for more than 70 violations over that span.
Transfer of hospice: Transfer of hospice does not involve a discharge from hospice in general, but a discharge from the current hospice provider to another one. [87] Discharge for cause: Occasionally a hospice will be unable to provide care to a patient, either due to philosophical differences with the patient or due to a safety issue.
Unity Hospice of Northwest Indiana, a for-profit provider that has accumulated 122 violations over the last decade – more than any other hospice – is a case study in how a provider can repeatedly walk up to the termination line, yet avoid the ultimate sanction by promising to reform.
Most healthcare providers have a positive attitude towards POLST, saying that the form presents peoples’ wishes and they can provide better care at individual's end of life with the form as guidance. [23] This also prevents undesirable interventions as well as unnecessary expense on hospice care in healthcare facilities. [21]
Hospice is a cluster of comprehensive services for the terminally ill with a medically determined life expectancy of 6 months or less. [15] Whether hospice services are performed at home or in a medical facility, the emphasis of care are the same; pain and symptom management, which is referred to as palliation.
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