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State backs hospice expansion, including new program in Pinellas
The state said another hospice program was needed in Pinellas County.
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By News Service of Florida
Published Yesterday
TALLAHASSEE â Florida health care regulators announced this year that the state needed an additional four hospice programs by July 2022 to care for people who are dying.
This week, though, the state Agency for Health Care Administration gave tentative approval to twice that many.
The decisions, announced Monday, could bring additional hospice programs to seven counties across the state, including Broward, Lee and Manatee counties, which were not included in a Feb. 5 published list of areas that needed new programs.