As a Healthcare Organization
             The United States healthcare system includes health plans, physicians,
             hospitals, clinics, consumers, and public health programs as well as
             hospice organizations. This report will present insights into how the
             insured and uninsured affect Hospice organizations in our healthcare
             system. As the median age of the population of the United States continues
             to rise, more Americans will need the services provided by a hospice
             organization. Hospice is not a process or facility for curing a fatal
             disease. Instead, hospice is a healthcare provider that has created an
             excellent reputation for dealing with the pressures related to the care of
             terminally-ill patients most of the time in the final stages of life.
             Hospice is also known for assisting those patients that have a confirmed
             life-threatening illness no matter what the stage of progression. The main
             objective of hospice care is to maintain the best quality of life possible
             for a patient and to keep that patient as comfortable or pain free as
             possible. Normally, these services are performed in the patient's home but
             more and more hospice organizations are required to attend healthcare
             facilities such as free clinics, hospitals and nursing homes.
             The mission, structure, and current community position of the
             organization has not changed a great deal since inception. The hospice
             philosophy has been said to be a completely holistic, family and home
             centered approach to death and dying. This holistic approach has been very
             well received in our communities around the nation. The approach of
             focusing on the patient and not the illness has allowed hospice
             organizations help the families along with the patient in a cost-effective
             Hospice is well known for providing individualized care plans for
             fatally ill patients and their families. A hospice team consists of a
             multidisciplin...