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Providers, families urge codifying pediatric palliative care through age 22
Summary
Hospices, palliative‑care program managers and families told the committee that extending pediatric palliative care eligibility to age 22 and codifying it in statute would prevent annual funding uncertainty and smooth transitions to adult services.
Hospice and pediatric palliative‑care providers, program managers and families urged the committee to codify an extended eligibility age of 22 for the state pediatric palliative care program, currently supported in annual budgets but not yet codified in statute. Christine McMichael of the Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts said the…
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