Few Minorities Use Hospice Care Services - washingtonpost.com: ... Blacks seek hospice care in disproportionately smaller numbers than whites partly because of cost, health insurance and cultural factors, including a sense of being denied medical care on the basis of race, according to health care specialists.
'Some people think that if a doctor wants them to stay home and not come into the hospital, that the medical system isn't truly concerned about them,' said Jon Radulovic, vice president of communications for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Many in the hospice industry are reaching out to blacks and the growing Hispanic population, but Madison said no one had ever approached her about it until January.
