The General Accounting Office (GAO) addresses the expansion of hospice care programs and calls for standards and regulations.
The GAO finds that 59 organizations are providing "many different combinations of medical and support services" to people that are terminally ill (Davis, 1988).
In 1981, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will fund the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals to create a set of standards for hospice care.