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UK
/hˈɒspɪs/
]
[ US /ˈhɑspəs/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑspəs/ ]
NOUN
- a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)
- a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
How To Use hospice In A Sentence
- It is thought officers will name 13 hospitals - including at least one hospice. The Sun
- Many hospice patients attend for care or stay a while for assessment and treatment, and are then able to go home.
- I think of the work that goes on in our homeless shelters, hospitals and hospices. The Sun
- The hospice model of care is now espoused as a model of excellence and has led to a worldwide hospice movement aspiring to deliver high quality care to dying patients.
- Hospice staff were said to be in tears when the news of her death was announced. Times, Sunday Times
- MCDONALD, George Bernard, 88, of Waldorf, a lithographer, died June 28 at Hospice House of St. Mary's. Southern Maryland Deaths
- Today the female tradition is continued to some extent inasmuch as most hospital, hospice, and district nurses who do the job are women.
- The patient's condition was untreatable and he sought hospice support.
- The guild are running the quiz in aid of Laois Hospice and hopes for plenty of support.
- The local hospice, in Masterton's Lincoln Road, is a non-residential unit, which offers family support, is a cancer education centre and a base for the nursing staff.