Rise of for-profit hospice industry raises troubling questions, new study says
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
A new survey of hospice care in the United States says that the rapidly growing role of for-profit companies in providing end-of-life care for terminally ill patients raises serious concerns about whose interests are being served under such a commercial arrangement: those of shareholders or those of dying patients and their loved ones.