Our mission is to advocate, with one voice, for policies that ensure the best care for patients and families facing the end of life.

We fight to ensure compassionate, high-quality care for all Americans facing a life-limiting illness by:

• Expanding an ongoing and influential presence on Capitol Hill,

• Mobilizing a growing network of Hospice Advocates throughout the nation,

• Empowering, through new and innovative techniques, an interactive community connecting the public with Hospice Advocacy, and

• Cultivating relationships with the media to highlight issues impacting end-of-life care.
   

What is HAN? The Hospice Action Network (HAN), NHPCO’s lobbying affiliate and national hospice advocacy organization, is dedicated to preserving and expanding access to hospice care in America. HAN works to connect Hospice Advocates with one another, the media, general public and policy makers. The Hospice Action Network also provides Hospice Advocates with the tools they need to fight for Hospice on a local level, on Capitol Hill, and online. (Read more...)

HAN Successes. A new era of Hospice Advocacy was launched in spring 2008 with a multi-phased strategy to build a national grassroots network dedicated to expanding and preserving access to compassionate, high-quality end-of-life care for all Americans. (Here’s what we’ve done together in that time...)

HAN Staff. We like to think of the HAN staff as lean, but mighty. There are only three of us, but we cover a lot of ground for our Hospice Advocates. We’re a diverse and passionate group…which puts us in great company with the larger hospice community. (Meet the staff...)