A medical campus that once made history is renewing calls for better patient care.
Hospice and Palliative Care Buffalo, a non-profit, opened the first combined residential and in-patient hospice campus in the United States 30 years ago. On Thursday, workers at this campus gathered to call on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign legislation preventing for-profit hospices from growing or opening until better patient safeguards are in place.
Jeanne Chirico, the president of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State, says the bill is important because studies have shown issues with care in for-profit hospices…