According to a new report which checked all the hospitals in the U.S., the southern part of the country is worst regarding its hospitals and its medical care. The new report is part of a program which focuses on the quality of life of the patients and not on the cures for diseases.

Organized by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and National Palliative Care Research Center in New York, the report evaluated the American’s access in hospitals which offer their patients care for serious illnesses like heart disease, kidney and liver failure or Alzheimer’s.

Hospitals in Vermont, Montana and New Hampshire got an A and the ones in Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi got an F. This brought to the entire nation a C. 65% of the hospitals in the Midwest offered the palliative care, as long as only 41% of the southern hospitals offered this kind of medical care for their patients.

"America's Care of Serious Illness: A State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation's Hospitals” is the name of the new program which is based on a study made by Dr. R. Sean Morrison and published in Journal of Palliative Medicine in the October 2008 issue.

Dr. Morrison, director of the National Palliative Care Research Center, said that "the good news is that hospitals nationwide have implemented palliative care programs quickly over the last six years. The bad news is that if you live in the South or you have to rely on public or small community hospitals, you're in trouble."