The boards of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) have agreed to a joint process to explore the formation of a new organization to combine the two groups and better serve members with a unified voice on behalf of the entire community of hospice, home care, palliative care, serious illness and other care at home providers, according to an announcement Aug. 10, 2023.
The boards of NHPCO and NAHC have signed a non-binding letter of intent to pursue the possible combination of both organizations into a new, as-of-yet unnamed organization.
In the coming months, the NAHC and NHPCO Boards of Directors will work together, in consultation with member volunteers from both organizations, to determine details of how a consolidated organization could represent the best interests of the combined memberships. The organizations expect this process to take six to ten months.