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Where you live matters when you’re seriously ill – Montana one of only 3 states to rate an A.

State-by-state report card shows Midwest leads, South and for-profit hospitals lag behind

America does a mediocre job caring for its sickest people. The nation, says a new report, gets a C.

Palliative care programs make patients facing serious and chronic illness more comfortable by alleviating their pain and symptoms and counseling patients and their families.

Only Vermont, Montana and New Hampshire earned an A, according to America’s Care of Serious Illness: A State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation’s Hospitals, a report http://www.capc.org/reportcard based on a study in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Three states – Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi – got an F.

Full Story: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/tmsh-wyl092508.php

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