At the Intersection of EMS and Hospice Care

摘要

Hospice care is one of the few aspects of modern medicine that is newer than emergency medical services (EMS). The first hospice was founded in 1967 in suburban London, England, by Dame Cicely Saunders. Saunders then traveled to the United States, speaking to medical and nursing students at Yale University. Florence Wald, president of the Yale School of Nursing, resigned her position to establish the Connecticut Hospice in 1971. This was the first hospice to open in the United States, and it began seeing home patients in 1974. Unity Hospice (then known as Bellin Hospice) followed in 1977.