Hospital-Based Palliative Care on the Rise in California

A brief item from Friday's San Jose Business Journal about the rise in hospital-based palliative care:

Hospital-based palliate care programs, which have a goal of helping patients with serious diseases live more comfortably, are quickly growing in popularity, according to a report released Thursday by the Oakland-based California HealthCare Foundation.

More than 90 percent of California’s 111 programs surveyed by the foundation were started since 2000, with 64 percent started since 2004.