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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]
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 ...
An analysis by the Washington Post last December of California hospice data found that the proportion of patients who were discharged alive from the health service rose by about 50 percent between 2002 and 2012. Profit per patient quintupled to $1,975 in California, the newspaper reported.
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.
"A Dignified Death: Hospices in the U.S. are increasingly run by for-profit providers, and a lack of regulation allows them to deliver abysmal end-of-life care", by the editors, Scientific American, vol. 330, no. 2 (February 2024), pp. 68–69. "Today [in the U.S.] nearly three quarters of hospice agencies operate on a for-profit basis.
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 ...
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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 ...