Journal of palliative medicine
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The performance of hospices owned by investor-owned, publicly traded hospice companies has been largely ignored by the literature. ⋯ Results suggest publicly traded for-profit hospices, in comparison to for-profit and nonprofit hospices, are able to earn substantially higher profits.
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Hospice improves the quality of end of life care in nursing homes but serves less than 10% of dying residents. For residents to elect hospice, nursing homes must first contract for these services. We surveyed nursing home and hospice administrators to describe facilitators and barriers to hospice in nursing homes, and to test whether nursing home administrators' attitudes correlate with hospice use. ⋯ Nursing home administrators' attitudes toward hospice may influence its availability for nursing home residents.