Hospice:

A lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)

A program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill

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Hospice has had a variety of meanings to different people, in different cultures and at various moments in history. By its simplest definition hospice today means an organized medical intervention on behalf of a patient nearing the end of life.

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