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 June 11, 2020 was the 46th Anniversary of the date when construction of America’s first hospice facility, Connecticut Hospice, was approved by the Connecticut Commission on Hospitals and Health Care. 

The anniversary was recognized by the Office of the State Historian and CTHumanities in a feature article for Today in Connecticut History entitled “A Breakthrough in Compassionate Care for the Terminally Ill”.

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