Hospices are as different as individual doctors are. Some hospice maangers are in it because they love death, others are in it because they love the living.
For example, my wife was impressed and inspired by her hospice rotation, but then we have folks like the hospice management in Pinellas Park, Florida who let a woman die of thirst when she shouldn't have been in hospice at all...nuff said!
Thanks, Mr. Silverback.
A friend of mine is an owner of an assisted living facility in Southern California. Recently she told me what she had learned by observing hospice workers coming to her facility. She holds some in very high professional regard while others she wouldn't want caring for a pet. One hospice firm, in particular, was noted for its rather frequent use of pain killers in hospice patients.