Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

LA Paper Skewers Hospices

The latest high-profile newspaper article lambasting the hospice industry comes in the form of a column appearing in the L.A. Times. Columnist Steve Lopez penned a piece detailing his mother’s experience with hospice care, emphasizing missed visits and uncontrolled pain symptoms, among other deficiencies. After five hours of uncontrolled pain and many frantic calls to the hospice, a hospice nurse [...]
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