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  1. Bryan Calver Says:

    Medicare will cover all hospice expenses. A hospice will help families find out whether the patient is eligible for any coverage they may not be aware of. Most hospices will provide for anyone who cannot pay using money raised from the community or from memorial or foundation gifts.

  2. cat Says:

    I am a hospice nurse I have worked for a for profit hospice and also a not for profit and the profit hospice is certainly out to get the big bucks . The value of care is poor because the numbers and money matter more than the patient. I will never work for a profit ( Bean counter) again. The hospital based hospice that I work for now is great and ethics is the way to go.

  3. Dirty Butter Says:

    We are currently using a for profit Hospice, but have previously used a non profit one. The Non Profit Hospice wins out hands down in our opinion.

    I wish I had asked who owned the Hospice before I got involved with them. I have no terrible complaints against them, but we have more instances of items not being ordered until we asked over and over. The staff are fine, but the bureaucracy is not!!

    If I had know this Hopsice was part of the company that runs a lot of sub par nursing homes in our area, I would never have used them. Now, I hate to try to change, what with all the equipment we've been able to get from them. We will NOT be using any of their nursing homes, if it comes to that!!

  4. Georgia Says:

    I understand that alot of the for-profit hospices are more for the numbers, but we are not all like that. I feel the difference is if the hospice is locally owned and operated or a large corportation which has several hospic offices nationa wide and the numbers do matter. I own a hospice in our town. I live, work, and feel responisble for the community I serve and our company is for-profit but we do things differently. I worked in hospice for several years and found that I did not like the way patient care was given so decided to do things differently. So don't count all for-profit hospices out we are not all about the numbers but about giving with a servants heart.

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