FREE HOSPICE PROGRAM AVAILABLE FOR USE ON CLOSED CIRCUIT OR PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS
HOSPICE: SOMETHING MORE DISPELS MYTHS ABOUT HOSPICE CARE

July 23, 2014, Washington, DC – Audiences are afforded a rare glimpse into the lives of hospice patients in the one-hour special program, Hospice-- Something More, available free on DVD.  Hospices, hospitals and medical practices are encouraged to use Hospice: Something More at no cost on their closed circuit networks or wherever patient education information is provided. Healthcare providers also may make the program available to their public television station or local cable-access channel to help raise hospice awareness within their communities.

“This program tells the stories of real hospice patients and their families in unscripted, compelling interviews,” said Hospice Foundation of America President and CEO Amy Tucci. “Their stories are both inspirational and informative. Families and individuals viewing this program will learn that hospice is the something more that can be done in the face of life-limiting illness.”
 
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Thousands of hospices and other healthcare providers are already using the program in a variety of ways since it was released in April 2014. Some have provided access to the program via their websites, others are showing the DVD to community groups, illness-specific support groups, or using it as a component to their volunteer training. Hospice Foundation of America is now making the DVD available to hospices and other healthcare providers for distribution on their own closed circuit networks or public access stations as a free tool to help educate the general public about what hospice care is and what it provides.
 
Produced by Hospice Foundation of America and funded by a grant from the John and Wauna Harman Foundation, the program is hosted by former CNN correspondent Frank Sesno.  He is joined in-studio by Samira Beckwith, CEO of Hope HealthCare Services, a nonprofit hospice provider serving southwest Florida; Terry Melvin, MD, medical director of Hospice of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Gary Fink, a rabbi who is vice president of spiritual care and volunteer services at Montgomery Hospice in Rockville, Maryland; and Kenneth J. Doka, professor at the graduate school of The College of New Rochelle in New York, a recognized expert in grief and loss.
 
Hospice Foundation of America (www.hospicefoundation.org) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help those who cope personally or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief and bereavement. Hospice Foundation of America is not a membership organization.
 
The DVD is available free to any interested organization or individual. To receive a free DVD of Something More, email somethingmore@hospicefoundation.org