Article: Hospices.

Article: Hospice care may lower end-of-life ...
Hospice Management Advisor;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... likely to choose hospice care; and *Patients ... the nearest hospice were less likely ... services used by hospice was preventing ... challenge for hospices will be to ... barrier to hospice enrollment ... simultaneously enroll in hospice care, Miller says ...

Article: Hospice care is cost-effective alternative
Central Penn Business Journal;  March 29, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Hospice care has changed society's view on death ... terminally ill patients in their own homes, hospice care has de-institutionalized the process ... emotional support to the family. Use of hospice care has increased steadily during the last ...

Article: Hospice Care
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer;      700+ words ...Hospice care Definition Hospice care is palliative care given to individuals who are terminally ill, with an expected survival of six months or less. The focus of hospice care is on meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of ...

Article: Study: hospice care can yield savings to HMOs, ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  August 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... combination of the two. Although hospice care seems to succeed in its humanitarian ... providers and payers is whether hospice care adds a costly and super-fluous ... studies to address the cost of hospice care is the National Hospice Study ...

Article: Hospice Care Evolves as Alzheimer's, Other Ills ...
U.S. News & World Report;  November 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... her family made arrangements for hospice care at home. Robert Stack is one of ... than 1 million patients who began hospice care this year in the United States ... most private insurance plans, hospice care is a swiftly growing healthcare ...

Article: VITAS Innovative Hospice Care(R) of Volusia and ...
PR Newswire;  June 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... PRNewswire/ -- VITAS Innovative Hospice Care(R), the nation's leading ... authority to open VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of Volusia and Flagler Counties ... years ago, VITAS helped defined hospice care by opening our first programs in ...

Article: VITAS Innovative Hospice Care(R) Opens in St. ...
PR Newswire;  February 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... PRNewswire/ -- VITAS Innovative Hospice Care(R), America's leading provider of hospice care, today announced it has received ... certification to open VITAS Innovative Hospice Care(R) of St. Louis. The newest ...