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November k designated at National Hospice Month, recognizing hospices providing care for terminally ID patients and their families, there ara 42 hospices in Virginia, the majority are private, non-profit organisations; 48 percent are coinmunity-based, such aa Hospice off the Rapidan, and 40 percent operate aa a hospital affiliate. Most hospice programs have been established far • -only five to six yean, t . * . ' \ living ftiDy nntfl death la the main goal for hospice redmants. Maintaining the terminally 01 person's dignity ia off utmost importance. This is obtained by allowing the patient to make dedsions about his orhercare and everyday life. : ; Hospice recognises death at a normal proeeaa to be neither hastened nor unnecessarily poatponed when in the best judgement off the doctor, patient, and fondly there is nothing more to effect a cure.
Dr. Cicely Saunders opened the first hospice in London, England, in 1967. The flrat hospice in the USA began assisting the terminally ill in
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