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Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Before entering hospice care, Mr. Barth had lived in the Bonita Bay neighborhood of Bonita Springs.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Though the former president is now scarcely seen, his mere longevity more than a year after beginning hospice has sparked important conversations about the benefits of end-of-life care.
—Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Our chaplains provide regular religious services and counseling, and our facility provides nursing care in our own apartment for conditions that do not require being in the nursing facility, as well as caring hospice services when that is needed.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
Additionally, her fellow nursing coworkers held a Nightingale ceremony to honor Richmond Rogers' dedication to saving lives as an emergency room and pediatric hospice nurse.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
His death, at a hospice center, was confirmed by his daughter Leslie Germaine.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
Settle’s condition improved and worsened several times before nurses moved him to an in-hospital hospice unit and said Koenig should come quick.
—Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
Northland Hospice and Palliative Care, Flagstaff, $7,500 To provide hospice care and thousands of nutritious meals to 91 low-income older adult patients, along with counseling to over 300 grieving family members in Flagstaff and rural Coconino County.
—Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
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Word History
borrowed from French, going back to Middle French hospise, borrowed from Medieval Latin hospitium "hospitality, lodgings, monastic guesthouse, shelter maintained by a religious order for the poor and infirm," going back to Latin,"accommodation of guests, hired lodgings," from hospit-, hospes "guest, host" + -ium, denominal suffix of function or occupation — more at host entry 1
1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Hospice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hospice. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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