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Special care hospice units in nursing homes
N G Castle1, V Mor, J Banaszak-Holl
1Brown University, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
The Hospice Journal
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The emergence of hospice care in the nursing home is a trend about which we have virtually no information. As a first step to a more comprehensive examination of this phenomenon, we provide a descriptive analysis of nursing homes that contain special care hospice units and a preliminary analysis of the determinants of nursing homes with special care hospice units. We found that being small, being a proprietary facility, being part of a chain, and being located in a more competitive environment are significantly related to having a hospice special care unit.