iBump: the hospice only gets paid for the days that the patient is there.
My husband is involved in hospice. My husband’s brother runs a hospice and when he started off he would get a text every time a patient died, until he got too depressed. He does his utmost to keep his patients as comfortable as possible and even created non-for-profit programs for the families of the patients and also has his version of the ‘last wish’ foundation. These programs continue even after the patient has died. Just recently my father-in-law volunteered at a (free) camp that my brother-in-law created for the young family members of a past loved one.
When the mother of my husband’s friend passed away, the son told my husband that he was so impressed with the hospice that he wanted to go into hospice himself.
There are good hospices and bad hospices. It breaks my heart that something that was created so people could pass on in comfort is being abused.