Sarah Bilbrey, Hope Hospice of St. Louis, shares how hospice providers strive to provide an assortment of personalized services, compassionate care and expert pain management to people nearing the end of their lives. Hospice care is family focused, physician driven care for those with life-threatening illnesses and their loved ones. Hospice provides physical, emotional, spiritual and psychosocial care for persons with a prognosis of six months or less to live.