The philosophy of hospice is to provide compassionate care throughout the dying process. Hospice programs help write the last chapter of that person’s life. To meet this goal, it is important that we embrace certain quality components. This includes a focus on patient/family centered care that assures we provide services that are responsive to their needs, clinical excellence by following accepted standards of practice and fostering professional development, compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, developing an organizational culture that imparts values, ethics and accountability and to consistently strive for better quality through a performance measurement system.