What are your feelings about the decision to expand hospice

What are your feelings about the decision to expand hospice

Please read the 4 articles and then answer the discussion question below in two pages:

1) What are your feelings about the decision to expand hospice from being provided by non-profit organizations to now allowing for profit companies provide the services, too?

2) Do you think it has helped hospice or hurt it? Explain your answer.

Reading material posted by the instructor:

1. Hospice as Business (PDF) – Attached
2. National Hospice and Pallitative Care Organization: https://www.nhpco.org/about/hospice-care
3. Hospice.net: http://www.hospicenet.org/
4. hospice vs palliative care: http://www.caregiverslibrary.org/caregivers-resources/grp-end-of-life-issues/hsgrp-hospice/hospice-vs-palliative-care-article.aspx

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Currently, hospice care is perhaps the most compassionate, quality and inclusive care for patients suffering from life-limiting diseases or injuries. It involves home care by a team of experts in medical care who work together to assist the patient in pain management while offering emotional and spiritual support to both the patients and their primary caregivers. The aim of hospice care is to help patients…..

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