The debate on overhauling our nation’s health care system has been launched in earnest as lawmakers begin exploring options to meet President Barack Obama’s goals of improving access and quality during tough economic times. Click here to find out more on Hospice & Health Care Reform. 

NHPCO’s Capitol Hill Day offerings are a unique opportunity to establish a link between the care you provide and the policy questions your lawmakers face. Your federal representatives need to know how they can protect and improve care for the dying. Click here

A 30-year veteran in the health care industry, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Treasure Coast Hospice Janine Cacciatore is tapping into her hospice’s volunteer resources to create an “advocacy task force” in her area. Click here to read more.

Many people help in establishing a prominent and by extension, influential hospice presence on the hill.  Vice President of NHPCO Public Policy  and Executive Director of The Alliance for Care at the End of Life Jonathon Keyserling shares how NHPCO works with lobbyists to enhance our Hospice Advocacy efforts in the nation’s capitol. To read the column, Click here.