Walk A Mile In A House Hospice Nurse’s Shoes

Over the past few weeks, hospices have come under fire on this blog, and for good reason. Over just a few decades, house hospice care has grown from a primarily charitable venture to a $14 billion dollar a year industry.

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That kind of growth doesn’t happen without some forms of corruption. In this case, kickbacks to nursing homes and doctors are used to fill hospice beds with patients who aren’t truly in need of house hospice services. Because CMS (Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services) pay a higher rate for house hospice care than for nursing home care, hospices will go to great lengths to fill beds.

As a lawyer who specializes in nursing home abuse and neglect, I am always hearing from people who have experienced the worst that the nursing home industry has to offer. They need my help, and I’m passionate about providing it. No one ever stops in the office to tell me about the great care their mother or father is receiving.

 

What shouldn’t be forgotten in the melee is the vast majority of quality house hospice nurses and the tireless work that they do to make sure that the residents in their care pass from this world as peacefully and painlessly as possible.

An article in the Missourian provides a small window into the life of a house hospice nurse. Just reading it can make a person exhausted. This is required reading for anyone who has a loved one in hospice care because, by reading it, families will know how hospice care is supposed to function.

If you have a loved one who has been abused or neglected in an Illinois hospice, there’s somewhere you can turn to for help. At my law offices we specialize in bringing justice to people who have been abused or neglected in nursing homes, hospices, and hospitals. Contact my law offices and you can speak to me or one of my colleagues with no fee and no obligation.

Barry G. Doyle is a personal injury lawyer in Chicago and the founder of the Law Offices of Barry G. Doyle, an Illinois nursing home abuse and neglect law firm dedicated to representing nursing home residents and their families..  If you or a loved one has been killed, injured or suffered neglect in a nursing home in Bloomington, please order your free copy of A Family’s Guide to Nursing Home Lawsuits in Illinois.  It’s full of helpful information that will help you protect your legal rights and is free to all Illinois residents.