National Hospice and Palliative Care Month is celebrated every November across the nation to increase public awareness about the benefits of hospice and palliative care. This year’s theme is My Hospice. A Program that Works. A Benefit that Matters. What began as primarily a volunteer-driven, grassroots movement in the 1970’s, hospice is now an integrated part of our nation’s health care delivery system providing care to more than 1.43 million Medicare beneficiaries and their