‘You’re truly remarkable people. Your presence is a blessing.’ LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Former Vice President Joe Biden praised hospice nurses during an event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Visiting Nurse Health System. “Simply put, you do God’s work,” Biden told a crowd of nurses in Atlanta, Ga., last week. Pleased to join @JoeBiden […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law this month a bill to evaluate the state’s health care resources for seriously and terminally ill patients. The new law establishes the state’s first Palliative Care and Quality of Life Study Committee, which is designed to offer insight about such care and provide […]
BY EDO BANACH, JD | President and CEO, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Within the hospice community, we have a shared vision of bringing the best that humankind can offer to all those individuals facing serious, advanced and life-limiting illness. Choosing to elect hospice care is an important decision that can greatly benefit patients with life-limiting […]
Shuttered Hospice Still Owes Thousands For Unpaid Work, Benefits BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org CHICAGO – Passages Hospice didn’t just harm vulnerable patients and their families. The company also ripped off front-line employees, those responsible for caring for the dying. Passages, which closed in 2014 as its years-long hospice scheme came to light, devastated its […]
BY LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF PORTLAND, Maine – Thousands of people across the world helped a terminally boy celebrate his last Christmas. As Jacob Thompson approached the end of his short life, his family asked strangers across the globe to send Christmas cards to help them celebrate his favorite holiday early. Jacob, who died Sunday at Barbara […]