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History of the National Hospice Organization
Author(s)	Larry Beresford, Stephen R Connor
Journal title	The Hospice Journal, vol 14, numbers 3/4, 1999
Pages	pp 15-32
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, United States.
Keywords	Terminal care ; Histories ; United States of America.
Annotation	The National Hospice Organization (NHO) grew out of efforts by the founders of the earliest hospice programmes in the US to protect their emotional investments in hospice care, to advocate for hospice interests in Congress and other public policy forums, to define standards for the fledgling movement, and to provide education on the nuts and bolts of running hospice programmes for others interested in starting hospices. Unlike the model of the St Christopher's Hospice in England, which began as a free-standing in-patient nursing home and later added home care services, most US hospices started as home care based programmes, often largely manned by volunteers. Among the crucial issues that have dominated the work of the NHO during its first 21 years were passage and maintenance of the Medicare hospice benefit, ideological battles over the hospice philosophy, and efforts to extend hospice care to other populations, such as people with AIDS. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000126209 A
Classmark	LV: 6A: 7T
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