Question: Which English Anglican nurse created the first modern hospice care in 1967?
Context: Christine Longaker is the former director of the Hospice of Santa Cruz County (California) and is considered a pioneer in the hospice movement.  She has provided trainings in caring for the dying around the world since 1978.  She co-designed Naropa University’s accredited training in ‘Contemplative End-of-Life Care’, and is the author of "Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying", which has been translated into nine languages, and is used in palliative and hospice care centers around the world.  Longaker is currently writing a book and creating a curriculum on Self-Compassion. St. Christopher's Hospice is a hospice in South London, England established in 1967 by Cicely Saunders, whose work is considered the basis of modern hospice philosophy. Dame Cicely Mary Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer, involved with many international universities.  She is best known for her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine. Demelza Hospice Care for Children is a Children's hospice and a registered charity (no. 1039561) based in Kent, England, providing palliative, respite, end-of-life and bereavement care to life-limited children and young adults, and their families.  The organisation carries the name of Demelza Phillips, who died from a brain tumour at the age of 24.  Demelza had worked at Acorns Children’s Hospice in Birmingham and her parents, impressed by the work they had seen there, wanted to establish a children’s hospice in the South-East of England.  Demelza House opened in 1998. Alive Hospice is a hospice in Middle Tennessee providing hospice care, palliative care, grief support and education about the end of life.  Founded in 1975, it was one of the nation’s earliest hospice organizations and remains an independent, private, community-based, 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit.  The hospice serves more than 3,400 patients a year (more than 400 terminally ill persons and their families daily). Florence Wald (April 19, 1917 – November 8, 2008) was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement".  She led the founding of Connecticut Hospice, the first hospice program in the United States.  Late in life, Wald became interested in the provision of hospice care within prisons. Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs.  In Western society, the concept of hospice has been evolving in Europe since the 11th century.  Then, and for centuries thereafter in Roman Catholic tradition, hospices were places of hospitality for the sick, wounded, or dying, as well as those for travelers and pilgrims.  The modern concept of hospice includes palliative care for the incurably ill given in such institutions as hospitals or nursing homes, but also care provided to those who would rather spend their last months and days of life in their own homes.  The first modern hospice care was created by Cicely Saunders in 1967. The North London Hospice (NLH) is a charity offering hospice care to patients with life-limiting illnesses.  It was founded in 1984 in response to the lack of aftercare for patients being discharged from hospital in north London following the closure of St. Columbus Hospital in 1981 which had been north London's only long-stay hospital.  The north London Hospice was the United Kingdom's first multi-faith hospice.  It operates centres in Finchley and Enfield. Amedisys Home Health and Hospice Care (NASDAQ: AMED ), based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one of the largest home health providers and fourth largest hospice care provider in the United States. Russell and Fern de Greeff Hospice House, now known as St. Anthony's at de Greeff Hospice House, in St. Louis, Mo., provides traditional hospice care to terminally ill individuals who do not have a caregiver available to care for them at home.  Patients requiring de Greeff Hospice House services may have a caregiver who is unable to care for them any longer, symptoms that cannot be managed at home or no caregiver or resources to hire outside help.
Answer: Cicely Saunders