title: A salute to the nation's first hospice.
abstract: There is great honor in being the first hospice in America. This distinction belongs to The Connecticut Hospice (TCH) of Branford, Connecticut. This commendable organization was born in 1974, only two years after Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging at the first Congressional hearings on the previously taboo subject of death and dying in America. I had the honor of helping to produce those hearings.
authors: Val J
authors: VJ
authors: Halamandaris
mesh_terms: D003237:Connecticut; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006738:Hospices / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States