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Patients understand the consequences of going into hospice. >> when you deny care that is lifesaving, that -- i mean basically took away life. >> reporter: hospice care is appropriate in many cases and is being used more and more, but the growth rate of hospice transfers at hca facilities is roughly double the national average. were you aware that the compensation that the head of hca receives, sam hazen, is tied to keeping the death rates low in his hospitals? >> wow, no. i had no idea. >> repo...

Staff were pressed to get patients into hospice where lifesaving treatments are withdrawn and the incentive is not necessarily patient care but the improvement of hospital performance metrics, this according to six nurses and 27 doctors who practice at 16 hca facilities in seven states and who spoke to nbc news. because if a patient dies in hospice even in the same hospital bed, their death will not be counted in the hospitals mortality statistics, a key factor used by those who rate hospital qu...

Names and phone numbers of assets and corporate cia employees as well as the addresses of ca facilities." with assets compromise, the u.s. may be partially blind. u.s. authorities are concerned with chinas increasing influence in the u.s. a november report found that chinese state media is not required to register as foreign agents even though many representatives are suspected spies. "wall street journal" reported u.s. counterintelligence over children warned white house advisors ivanka trump a...