Hospice Improves Care for Dementia Patients And Their Families

Hospice services substantially improved the provision of care and support for nursing home patients dying of dementia and their families, according to an analysis of survey responses from hundreds of bereaved family members. The research comes as hospice...

Men Dying of Prostate Cancer Referred Too Late to Hospice Care

More than half of men dying of prostate cancer use hospice care — a significant increase over the last two decades — but most wait too long to enroll and can’t take full advantage of the palliative care that could make their deaths easier, a...

Oregon Hospice Pays $1.83 Million to Settle False Claims Act Liability

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals – Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente P.C., Physicians & Surgeons (collectively, Kaiser NW) has agreed to pay the United States $1,830,322.41 to...