Significant moments and and figures in Hospice History

By latanya.mcfadden

  • Dame Cicely Saunders began her work with terminlly ill patients and specilized in care for the dying.

    Dame Cicely Saunders began her work with terminally ill patients and specilized in care for the dying.

  • Dame Cicely Saunders introduced the idea of specilized care for the dying to the United states during 1963 vist to Yale University.

  • Dame Cicely Saunders creates St Christophers Hospice in the U.S.

  • A book based on 500 interviews with dying patients is published. ON DEATH AND DYING was the name of the book by Elisabth Kubler- Ross

  • First hospice legislation is introduced by senators Frank Moss and and Frank Church to provide federal funds for hospice programs

  • Congress includes a provision to create a Medicare hospice benefit in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act

  • The Government accounting office releaess a study stating that only about 35% of eligible hospices are Medicare certified.

  • Hospice is included in a national guaranteed benefit under President Clinton's health care reform proposal.

  • HCFA releases an expanded version of the Hospice Interpretive Guidelines, providing clarification of the conditions of participation.

  • The world wide Palliative care Alliance is formed to address global care needs at the end-of-life.

  • WORLDWIDE PALLIATIVE CARE ALLIANCE IS FORMED TO