hospice care

It has been one year since Jimmy Carter entered hospice, which often is for patients facing incurable diseases. Contrary to popular belief, starting hospice doesn't mean giving up on life.

Hospice care is treatment designed to make patients comfortable in their final days. It is usually home-based and reserved for those declared by two physicians to be terminally ill, with six months or less to live.

New hospice programs may now be coming to seven counties, including Broward, Lee and Manatee, which were not included in a Feb. 5 list of areas that needed new programs.

Assisted living-type facilities often are subject to less scrutiny than nursing homes. Investigations in Vermont and elsewhere have revealed patterns of poor care and deaths.

A House committee on Thursday approved a bill that would carve out hospice services and treatment provided in hospital critical-care units or emergency…

Lawmakers are poised to give the Agency for Health Care Administration complete rule-making authority over hospice care, assisted living facilities, adult…

The state’s certificate-of-need regulatory law can, and should, go the way of the dinosaurs, the House sponsor of a repeal bill said. Members of the House…

Through home visits, very ill people get help with pain, stress and symptoms. Medical centers, initially skeptical, now embrace the program because it helps patients and makes financial sense.

The House is advancing a measure making it easier for patients to access hospice care.

Compassionate Care Hospice in Lakeland can restart operations soon, as Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill into law, reports the Ledger of Lakeland. The…