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Hospices are responding to the challenge of improving patient enrollment among minorities, and recent research shows that hospice's quality of care is perceived as high among African Americans.
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When Capital Hospice of Falls Church, VA, started an outreach program for the region's Latino community, one area that received a great deal of attention was in choosing the program's name of Caminando Juntos.
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A California hospice has found that its bereavement center and support groups have been successful in promoting hospice care and helping members of the public with grief after a loss.
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Racial and socioeconomic factors continue to play significant roles in breast cancer, according to the State of Breast Cancer Report, recently published by Susan G. Komen for the Cure in Dallas.
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Hospice leaders and other experts say that hospices can improve their ratio of minority staff and increase referrals among minority patients by making this a goal and implementing creative outreach programs.
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A 2004 study published in the Annals of Family Medicine analyzed when patients want a discussion about spirituality and what they want done with the information.
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A "near-miss" in which a nurse at a Pennsylvania hospital incorrectly placed a "do not resuscitate" (DNR) wristband on a patient has prompted an Ohio initiative aimed at implementing statewide standardization of colored wristbands.
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