He used them when he later worked as an social worker, and when he assumed leadership in the hospice field as the Chairman of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Association. Lebanon as the president and chief executive officer of Family Hospice & Palliative Care, the largest independent, nonprofit, community-based hospice in Western Pennsylvania. Through an association with both UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, the hospice anticipates bringing medical students and health care providers to its conference center for educational opportunities. Gail Gazelle, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who specializes in hospice and palliative care, said that education is at the forefront of issues in hospice care. Since Medicare began paying for hospice care approximately 25 years ago, the number of patients served by hospice in the United States has grown from 158,000 in 1985 to 1. Read More

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