2018 Press Releases
For Immediate Release:
April 5, 2018
NHPCO Welcomes Members of its Palliative Care Council
Noted Palliative Care Leaders Join NHPCO Council
Immediate Release:
March 28, 2018
NHPCO’s Management and Leadership Conference is the premiere event for hospice and palliative care leaders, senior managers, advocates, and supporters.
For Immediate Release:
March 28, 2018
Hospice Patients with Cancer Diagnosis Drops Below 30 Percent New Report Reveals
NHPCO Releases Updated Edition of “Facts and Figures: Hospice Care in America”
Immediate Release:
March 22, 2018
NPR Host Ari Shapiro to be Opening Speaker at National Hospice Leadership Conference on April 23
NHPCO Bringing Together Two Premiere Events this April in Washington, DC
For Immediate Release:
March 8, 2018
NHF Receives Grant from Legal & General America to Foster Healthy Communities through Development of a Find a Grief/Bereavement Provider Tool
Top-ten U.S. life insurer helps NHPCO create searchable database for programs across the U.S.
February 15, 2018
Edo Banach, JD, President and CEO
We have enough grief and loss without inflicting it upon ourselves. We are heartbroken by the school shooting in Florida, as we were heartbroken by the shooting in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sandy Hook, and beyond. I am sorry to those who feel that it is not our issue, and not my role. As a leader, a father, a husband, and a human being, I feel compelled to write every time we witness these tragedies. I wrote the following thoughts after the Las Vegas shooting, and I share them again today—
For Immediate Release:
February 8, 2018
* updated 02/09/2018
NHPCO Applauds Passage of the Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act
Legislation will allow physician assistants to serve as the attending physician to hospice patients.
For Immediate Release:
February 7, 2018
NHPCO Publishes Resource for Bereavement Professionals and Those Caring for the Grieving
New edition of the Guidelines for Bereavement Care in Hospice created
to support hospice and palliative care programs with bereavement services.