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- Nearly 1.1 million patients were treated by hospices in 2004. That is up from 158,000 in 1985. - More than 77 percent of hospice patients were white, 8.1 percent black and 1.7 percent Asian and Pacific Islander in 2004. - Hospice programs have grown from one in 1974 to 3,650 nationally in 30 years. - The average hospice treatment is 57 days.
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