When Trauma Care Turns to Comfort: Inside a Trauma Center Hospice Program

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You just handed off a trauma patient everyone in the room knows won't survive. What happens to them after you leave? Where does their family get to say goodbye? Will talks with Amie Lemire, Director of Hospice at UNC Health , about a program that brings hospice into the medical center. Instead of dying in a loud, fast turnover emergency department, critically injured patients can move to comfort care within hours, with a team supporting their families and the clinicians caring for them. This…