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C-Suite Shakeups at Aveanna, New Day, Samaritan, VNAHSR

Hospice News

Dr. Stephen Goldfine, who previously held the role since 2003, is transitioning to serve part-time as physician executive at the organization. VNAHSR employs more than 250 certified home health aides, rehabilitation therapists, social workers and visiting nurses.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

I have felt as I’ve come through this field over the last, I guess 2003 is when I realized I wanted to be a palliative care doctor. She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. So, we wanted to have some activity spread around the country.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

On Saturday 18th January 2003 a freak and devastating firestorm tore through my city. From social workers, chaplains and ex-ED staff who turned up to volunteer their services, to patients and relatives who became caregivers themselves. Republished article of The Nurse Path. Find more of The Nurse Path here.

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18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss

The Nurse Break

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals.

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