Given these differences, one can see how Hospice of Anchorage is able to serve our clients in many ways that a Medicare Hospice cannot and we are the only volunteer hospice to be able to do so in the Anchorage Municipality. The rules and regulations that govern a volunteer hospice are much different and somewhat less stringent than those that govern a Medicare Hospice which in turn, allow us to be more creative in the ways in which we meet our client’s needs.