[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 110 (Monday, September 18, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
  (Committees not listed did not meet)
HOSPICE CARE USE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
barriers to wider use of hospice, including the question of why 
Medicare-covered hospice stays are getting shorter, and options for 
Congress to strengthen the program for current and future generations, 
after receiving testimony from former Senator Robert J. Dole; William 
J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, 
Health, Education and Human Services Division, General Accounting 
Office; Nicholas A. Christakis, University of Chicago Department of 
Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of Horizon Hospice; Frances 
Hoffman, Hospice of North Iowa, Mason City; Kathryn Grigsby, Hospice of 
Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Karen Wood Bell, Providence Health 
System, Portland, Oregon; and Ruby Tooks, Carroll City, Florida.