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Hospices and families seek to codify pediatric palliative care eligibility to age 22
Summary
Hospice and palliative care providers, patients and families told the Joint Committee the state should permanently raise statutory eligibility for pediatric palliative services to age 22 (S 1507) so programs and families have predictable access through the transition to adult services.
Hospices, pediatric palliative care program managers and families asked the Joint Committee on Public Health to enshrine an eligibility age of 22 in statute for the state pediatric palliative care program, saying recent budget language extended services but the change should be permanent.
"Extending this eligibility to 22 would allow the program to better assist young adults and their families,"…
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