Briefly Noted The National Hospice Organization (Alexandria, VA) has changed its name to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).
Volunteers of America has established strong working partnerships with other key organizations, including the American Correctional Association (ACA), North American Association for wardens and Superintendents, American Correctional Health Services Association, American Correctional Chaplains Association, National Prison Hospice Association, National Hospice Organization, the George Washington University Center to Improve Care of the Dying, Fordham University Third Age Center, the Open Society Institute, correctional departments in New York, North Carolina and Oregon, and the Federal Medical Center for Women in Texas.
The number of hospices in the United States is increasing by 8 percent annually, according to the National Hospice Organization in 1991, the lastest figures available, there were 1,850 hospices -- 107 more than in 1990.
It also means not only measuring clinical outcomes the National Hospice Organization (NHO) is involved in a project that is advancing clinical and grief outcomes but financial outcomes as well.
A bill introduced last year to overturn the Reno decision and restore the original professional judgment of the DEA that killing a patient is not a "legitimate medical purpose" was opposed by the National Hospice Organization and other medical groups who said they feared it might inhibit doctors from prescribing appropriate pain relief.
In a comment letter to Inspector General June Gibbs Brown, the National Hospice Organization (NHO) in Arlington, VA, argues that nursing facility employees are akin to family caregivers in the home and should be allowed to perform certain tasks as long as the hospice retains professional management of the patient.
