Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Health System Shutters Inpatient Hospice Unit
Published on Thu Mar 28, 2019
Family Hospice & Palliative Care, part of the UPMC health system based in Pittsburgh, will shut down its 12-year-old hospice inpatient unit in Mt. Lebanon by the end of April, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The hospice inpatient units in Mt. Lebanon and Lawrenceville half been only about half-full in recent years, so UPMC is closing one, an official told the newspaper. Scaling back residential hospice settings has been a recent national trend, she said. More than a year ago, Allegheny Health closed its nine-bed inpatient hospice unit at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, the newspaper points out. Both health systems cited a preference for hospice care at home in the closings.
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