Hospice nurses in Wyoming and California spent the longest time with patients during weekend visits between Jan. 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2024, according to CMS data published Feb. 18. CMS collects ...

A report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds that hospices did not always comply with the portion of the “hospice aide and homemaker services” ...

According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, in 2022, 1.72 million Medicare recipients were enrolled in hospice for at least one day. Hospice does not hasten death but rather ...

Managing conflict during home hospice nursing visits: Communication between nurses, cancer patients, and spouse caregivers. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Palliative and Supportive ...

When my mother was dying, a private, for-profit hospice agency failed her — the assigned nurse was late for the first visit because of a staffing shortage. My mother suffered in misery without pain ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...