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A Hospice House in Missouri. Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.
The goal of hospice agencies in the United States is to provide comfort to the patient and heighten quality of life. [15] How comfort is defined is up to the patient or, if the patient is incapacitated, the patient's family.
Hospice comes from the Latin word hospitum which means hospitality. Initially as a form of lodging for the sick, hospice refers to holistic end of life care. The word palliate comes from the Latin word "pallium", which means "cloak"—to palliate is to cloak, or cover up, the symptoms of an illness without curing it. [1]
The hospice business has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade, from a collection of small religious-affiliated entities into a booming mega industry dominated by companies seeking to reap big profits from the business of dying.
A hospice is blaming rising costs for its decision to make 18 staff redundant and reduce patient services. St Cuthbert's Hospice, in Durham, which employs 124 people, said it faced "growing ...
As HuffPost detailed in June, hospice has transformed from a small niche service into a booming industry dominated by for-profit entities. Medicare largely bankrolls the hospice industry, providing $15 billion out of $17 billion in revenue in 2012.