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Health care providers are understandably concerned about the legal climate in which they live, observes Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, professor in the department of community health at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, OH.
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A state-by-state report card on hospice services shows most states are doing a poor job of caring for the dying. According to the report, patients are spending less time in hospice care than they did in the early 1980s when the movement first started in the United States.
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Even states that ranked high in hospice use earned low grades overall on a national report card prepared by the Last Acts organization in Washington, DC.
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Most hospices that provide pediatric palliative care must do so without reimbursement. But there are trends that suggest the days of care wholly subsidized by community support may be on its way out.
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t happens to the best of us. You need to call a potential donor, but you just cant seem to pick up the phone. You stare at it. You find another task to complete. You procrastinate. Something, anything seems better that having to make your calls. The mental anguish is almost unbearable.
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