11 Facts About Hospice

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.

Hospice benefits include access to a multidisciplinary treatment team specialized in end-of-life care and can be accessed in the home, long-term care facility or the hospital.

Hospice care includes assistance for patients' families to help them cope with what is happening and provide care and support to keep the patient at home.

Hospice developed many foundational principles of modern hospice care at St Joseph's.

Hospice disseminated her philosophy internationally in a series of tours of the United States that began in 1963.

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Hospice can be administered in a nursing home, hospice building, or sometimes a hospital; however, it is most commonly practiced in the home.

Hospice was the subject of the Netflix 2018 Academy Award-nominated short documentary End Game, about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital and Zen Hospice Project, featuring the work of palliative care physician BJ Miller and other palliative care clinicians.

Hospice opened in 1980 in Harare, Zimbabwe, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Representatives of Nairobi Hospice sit on the committee to develop a Health Sector Strategic Plan for the Ministry of Health and work with the Ministry of Health to help develop palliative care guidelines for cervical cancer.

Hospice care is covered by Medicaid and most private insurance plans.

Hospice care is available to people in home-like hospice residences, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, veterans' facilities, hospitals and prisons.