Industry Note:
LA Paper Skewers Hospices
Published on Fri Jan 25, 2019
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 [...]