Access and Values Project Report Completed! Authors: Bruce Jennings, True Ryndes, Carol D'Onofrio and Mary Ann Baily "Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers," a report drawn from a three year study of the values that drive and hinder hospice access was published as a Special Supplement accompanying the March/April 2003 issue of the prominent bioethics journal, the Hastings Center Report. In this report a new vision of hospice is constructed, one that holds firm to the traditions and values of the past, but finds new and more flexible organizational forms through which to express those values. The authors distill the thoughts and opinions of over 130 stakeholder representatives in end of life care, suggesting the current emphasis on categorical physical and functional eligibility be replaced by criteria related to the human consequences of serious illness. The model of traditional hospice as a specialized service and an independent agency with a limited mission will, according to True Ryndes, president of the National Hospice Work Group, "gradually be transformed into a more comprehensive model of care management in which hospice becomes the coordinating center for a range of palliative services from diagnosis to death." This historic project was funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and Nathan Cummings Foundation and produced in association with the The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Click on the toolbar at left for an Executive Summary of the project. For a hard copy of the full report contact publications@thehastingscenter.org or go to www.growthhouse.org to download the pdf version. Printer-friendly format