Home Health & Hospice Week

The hospice industry continues to get a shellacking in the mainstream press.

For example: An editorial in Politico titled “Hospice Care Has a Big Problem” highlights a recent “call to action” published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, in which 325 doctors in the field write about common failings they encounter and ways hospice physicians can mitigate them. See the article at www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/07/05/hospice-care-has-a-big-problem-00104816.

Another example: The Nation magazine ran an editorial titled “The Private Equity Takeover of Hospice Care.” The article says that “‘Profit over people’ is an unappealing MO for any company, but it is an especially ugly approach to operating a hospice, where the people in question are, by definition, some of society’s most vulnerable.”

It also suggests the idea that “Medicare could agree to reimburse nonprofit hospices only.” See the article at www.thenation.com/article/politics/healthcare-medicare-illness-privatization.