National Hospice Work Group - Expanding Boundaries

National Hospice Work Group ^ | March-April 2003 | Bruce Jennings, et al

[Liberty Reigns]

Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers, a report drawn from a three-year study of hospice access and values issues conducted by The Hastings Center and the National Hospice Work Group, a voluntary association of progressive hospices, was published as a Special Supplement accompanying the March/April 2003 issue of the bioethics journal, the Hastings Center Report...

The report also offers a new vision of hospice, one that holds firm to many of the traditions and values of the past but finds new and more flexible ways to deliver care. The model of traditional hospice care as an independent and specialized service will gradually be transformed into a more comprehensive model in which hospice becomes the coordinating center for a range of services and types of expertise that can be accessed by patients. In the authors’ new vision, America’s hospices will play an expanded role in addressing more of the supportive and symptom relief needs of patients confronting life-limiting illnesses and their families for longer periods and in a wider variety of settings and contexts...

To achieve this ambitious goal, policies must change and powerful cultural taboos surrounding death and dying must be overcome. What’s needed are a national program of professional education about hospice and palliative care and a massive social marketing campaign regarding hospice programs’abilities to address and resolve many of the most widely held fears about the end of life...

[Liberty Reigns]

I haven't read the full report (link is to a summary pdf) but came across this while trying to figure out why Terri Shaivo was killed. Have any hospice leaders expressed reservations about what was done to her?

Liberty Reigns

[JennysCool]

The report also offers a new vision of hospice, one that holds firm to many of the traditions and values of the past but finds new and more flexible ways to deliver care.

Translation: YOU CAN MAKE BIG MONEY IN THE NEW AND EXCITING WORLD OF HOSPICE CARE!!!

[Daisy4]

In the authors’ new vision, America’s hospices will play an expanded role in addressing more of the supportive and symptom relief needs of patients confronting life-limiting illnesses and their families for longer periods and in a wider variety of settings and contexts...

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Hospice if funded by HMO Insurance and Medicaid, and before one can be admitted into the pogram, the person, by law has to have a TERMINAL DIAGNOSE of 6 months or less to live. This is what they are changing, and they will help you die faster. Analysis: If you are ill, REFUSE HOSPICE CARE!!

[Sally]

Rush is linking to a bunch of articles at Canada Free Press. Here's one:

Is hospice industry part of the right-to-die crusade?

http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/cover032905.htm

[SNIP] Ron Panzer, President of the pro-life Hospice Patients Alliance (HPA), contends that hospice workers all over the country are routinely killing patients.

"Those who report to HPA tell us they’ve overheard nurses saying things like, `I’m just like Jack Kevorkian, only I do it with morphine.’ And they get away with it week by week because it’s hospice." (LifeNews.com).

[Miss Marple]

The investigation of the hospice industry and monitoring their connections and actions to other groups (such as George Soros) would be a productive thing for Freepers to do, as opposed to attacking each other.

I think all of us can agree that the expansion of this industry is curious and should make us all wonder what's going on.

[Cboldt]

To achieve this ambitious goal, policies must change and powerful cultural taboos surrounding death and dying must be overcome.

Overcoming powerful cultural taboos regarding death and dying? Sure sends a red flag for me, complete with flashing lights and blaring siren.

[Diogenesis]

[Miss Marple]

No kidding!

[cherry]

you would be surprised how many drugs are given at the strong request of families.......any little twitch, they want it treated.....

[Liberty Reigns]

"Overcoming powerful cultural taboos regarding death and dying? Sure sends a red flag for me, complete with flashing lights and blaring siren."

I'll be out today but I'm going to look for the full report. Will try to find a link and post.

I want to find out about what the envisioned "expansion" of services entails. I have an awful sense that Terri was a test case.

[Telit Likitis]

"The report recommends freeing America's hospice providers from existing regulatory, financial and cultural constraints so that their expertise can be applied more broadly in new settings and contexts."

They want God to Abdicate!

[maryz]

That is too good!

[nicmarlo]

ping

[kalee]

"they will help you die faster. Analysis: If you are ill, REFUSE HOSPICE CARE!!"

AMEN!!! Happened to my stepfather in a FL hospice last Aug.

[kalee]

Chilling, huh?

[Daisy4]

SNIP] Ron Panzer, President of the pro-life Hospice Patients Alliance (HPA), contends that hospice workers all over the country are routinely killing patients.

"Those who report to HPA tell us they’ve overheard nurses saying things like, `I’m just like Jack Kevorkian, only I do it with morphine.’ And they get away with it week by week because it’s hospice." (LifeNews.com).

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THIS IS TRUE!!! I am an R.N., who worked for 3 different Hospices when I lived in So. Fla. I quit all of them because I saw the handwriting on the wall... and this was 15 years ago!!!

[Daisy4]

See post #16.

[nicmarlo]

I quit all of them because I saw the handwriting on the wall... and this was 15 years ago!!!

Kudos to you; you have my respect for your integrity. Thank you. I wish more nurses would come forward and tell the truth.

[tutstar]

I found the entire report here

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:FrafqPpi8PYJ:www.thehastingscenter.org/pdf/access_hospice_care.pdf+access+to+hospice+care+expanding+boundaries+overcoming+barriers&hl=en

Middle column page 6 mentions hospice becoming the organizing center for persons will illness.

It sounds to me like they want to get hold of you as soon as you're diagnosed with a disease and coordinate your 'treatment'. They even mention those with chronic illness could benefit.

Well ....someday I might be crippled from rheumatoid arthritis so why not put me on the fast track to death? /sarcasm

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for that; I'll download it tonight.