As we look back over 2025, Tim and Nathan at Hoven Consulting are grateful to have the opportunity to work in Madison to advocate on behalf of Wisconsin’s hospice and palliative care agencies – in particular, to improve patient safety and increase patient access to our state’s health care system.

With your help, WiHPCA helped advance a number of important priorities that benefit hospice and palliative care agencies and the patients you serve:

• Legislation Creating a State Palliative Care Council: With the help of WiHPCA members, we have advanced this legislation further than ever before! Earlier this year, the State Assembly approved this legislation overwhelmingly. In addition, the Senate Health Committee unanimously advanced this bill to the full state Senate. We are continuing to work to advance this legislation in the state Senate. Thank you for your advocacy on this important legislation!
• WiHPCA formally agreed to support legislation allowing Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers (APNPs) to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records.
• Governor Tony Evers signed this bill into law on August 8, 2025.

We look forward to 2026 and our continued efforts to advocate for policies that benefit both hospice and palliative care agencies and the patients you serve.

From all of us at Hoven Consulting, we would like to wish all of you and your families a very happy and healthy holiday season!