Covington / Falls Church / New York / Washington / /
Company
Blue Cross / Capital Hospice / the New York Times / Blue Shield / Continuum Hospice Care / Aetna / UnitedHealth / /
Country
Columbia / /
Currency
USD / /
Facility
Jewish Hospice / Pick Hospice / University Street North Woodmere / National Institute / Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center / Continuum’s hospice / Because Continuum Hospice / /
IndustryTerm
social services / big insurer / hospice services / treatment for the disease / /
MedicalCondition
chronic care policy / _breast_cancer / very advanced disease / late-stage lung cancer / _Cancer / advanced gastric cancer / disease / pain / kidney failure / terminal illness / /
Center for Medicare Management / Medicare / Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York / National Institute for Jewish Hospice / Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon / /
Person
Ira R. Byock / John W. Rowe / Mark Leenay / Laurence Wilson / Carolyn Cassin / Gary Marko / Malene Davis / Amy / Steve Morgenstern / Michael Abbassi / Charles Tirone / Sharon Brodeur / Troyen Brennan / Diane E. Meier / /
Position
director of palliative medicine / social worker / chief executive / health policy professor / Senator / home health aide / chief medical officer / chairman / professor / administrator / nurse / chairman and chief executive / medical director of palliative initiatives / director of chronic care policy / nurse and a massage therapist / /
ProvinceOrState
Virginia / Oregon / New York / Washington / Rhode Island / New Hampshire / /
A Chance to Pick Hospice and Still Hope to Live Published in the New York Times: Health Plans May 20, 2006 By _R__eed_Abelson_