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Liability of Hospice Organizations: Can a hospice organization be held liable if their employees are negligent?

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Yes, and with respect to hospice we’ve been seeing more and more hospice cases. There’s more facilities becoming involved in hospice care, providing hospice care to residents or patients who otherwise long-term care patients. The majority of people, we have found, define hospice as end of life. And when hospice is considered to be end of life there’s a tendency to not provide all of the service or provide for all of the needs of the person. Hospice truly, if you look at the definitions and the advertising for hospice, they provide comfort care. They’re not end of life care they provide care for the life that remains for the person who may have a terminal illness. The life expectancy could be a few days, it could be a year, but nonetheless, their responsibility of a hospice provider is to provide care and comfort for a person until their last day.

Phoenix, AZ personal injury attorney Teri Rowe explains the meaning of hospice and what they’re liable of.

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