Saunders to come speak about hospice care to students. These students and their professors were so inspired by Dr. Saunders ideas they launched a Hospice Movement. This movement was to encourage the nursing students of Yale to focus on the patient, their family, and keeping them involved in the patients’ care. It was one of these students, Florence Wald, that organized a team to open the first hospice care facility of the United States in 1974. It was called Connecticut Hospice located in Branford, Connecticut and is still open to this day. Connecticut Hospice set the standard for all future hospice in America. Others followed and began opening their own homes for hospice care to give patients a sense of home and a place for their families to come
Saunders to come speak about hospice care to students. These students and their professors were so inspired by Dr. Saunders ideas they launched a Hospice Movement. This movement was to encourage the nursing students of Yale to focus on the patient, their family, and keeping them involved in the patients’ care. It was one of these students, Florence Wald, that organized a team to open the first hospice care facility of the United States in 1974. It was called Connecticut Hospice located in Branford, Connecticut and is still open to this day. Connecticut Hospice set the standard for all future hospice in America. Others followed and began opening their own homes for hospice care to give patients a sense of home and a place for their families to come