Hospice provides comprehensive in-home care and support for people who are approaching the end of their life. What will it ...
A Tennessee court declared billionaire Forrest Preston, the mogul behind America’s largest private nursing home chain, unfit to run the business he’s headed since 1970. His son, who initiated a legal ...
The service is provided primarily in the patient's home, whether that is a private residence, nursing ... care. Most hospice ...
Medicare covers palliative care with or without end-of-life hospice care ... They may provide care in the individual’s home, a hospital, a nursing home, or a palliative care clinic.
Stories and perspective pieces explore difficult questions: What should medical care — whether it’s delivered in a hospital, at a nursing facility, or at home — look like at the end of life?
In 2009 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began a major, four-year investment in improving the quality of end-of-life ... diagnoses, nursing home use in the last year of life, census region ...
This study validated the Home Hospice Nursing Care Scale, a new assessment tool for home-based nursing care for cancer patients at the end of life.