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Pre-Hospice Program Offers Alternative End of Life Care

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | Sacramento, CA
Michael Reigner / AP
 

Michael Reigner / AP

After contentious debate over death panels four years ago, federal lawmakers are again taking up issues around end of life care. They're investing money into programs that care for the nation's sickest patients in a new way. One of them is based at Sutter Health in Northern California. Sutter's program could be a model for the rest of the country.

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