Is a hospice considered acute care or just palliative care?

Neither. Hospice is the place. At a hospice one could receive either acute care or palliative care, depending on the circumstance (though the usual treatment would be considerd palliative.)

Ok - I've changed my mind -- hospice is sometimes used as an adjective, as in hospice care. In that instance, hospice care would be palliative. (The idea of the hospice is that the patient's condition is terminal, and that palliative care is the best that can be hoped for -- though if other issues arise that would respond to treatment, it could be that acute care is given to a hospice patient.)

When one is transferred to he hospice, it means that there is nothing further the hospital can do.

From my understanding - all hospices deal with is the pain

Hospice is palliative care. They are there to make there end days more comfortable. Hospice isnt like a building, its an organization that comes in to make sure the patient isnt in any pain for there remaining days. Hospice could be at home, in an actual hospice building or even in the hospital or nursing home.

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