At some HCA hospitals, staff are pressed to get patients into hospice with the goal of improving hospital performance metrics, according to six nurses and 27 doctors. NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden shares one patient’s story where doctors urged her mother to transfer her to end-of-life care but the patient ended up recovering.
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