One perspective: Nonprofit hospice fears influx of unregulated competitors
Hospice nurses perform one of the most difficult jobs: Caring for people in their final months of life. But for-profit hospice and palliative care companies, many of them well-capitalized, are entering New York state and upending the marketplace.
“The issue is, we don’t want to reproduce the problem that most of the nation is experiencing, which is issues of quality, fraud, abuse, threats to workforce, etcetera,” said Dr. Christopher Kerr, CEO and chief medical officer at Hospice Buffalo, one of the oldest hospices in the nation.