The idea of expanding this policy to hospitals treating hospice patients is misinformed because the curative capabilities hospitals have are not offered in hospice care, Mr. Nickels wrote.
“[Hospice transfer] is a serious decision that a patient makes together with his or her family and physician. Hospitals do not ‘push’ patients into hospice in order to be able to discharge a day earlier, they transfer patients to hospice because it is the best setting in which to provide the care they need and have elected — to suggest that hospitals make this decision based on anything other than the patient’s wishes and their physician’s judgment is preposterous,” Mr. Nickels wrote.
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