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St. Croix’s New Minnesota Location Supports Staff Amid Growth

Hospice News

You have a nurse, you have a chaplain, you have a social worker, you have a hospice aide. Launched in 2008, St. Now there is a care team that is expected, and its not just one person whos going to be coming in and out. You really only get one chance with each of these patients, and its really important.

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Building a Clinic-Based Palliative Care Program

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Their palliative care subsidiary, Sincera — Supportive Care and Symptom Relief, launched in 2008 and recently opened a location in Oregon City, Ohio. One of the agencies that uses the clinic model is Hospice of Northwest Ohio, which serves both Ohio and Michigan. The program currently works with 180 physicians in its service area.

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Community Hospice & Palliative Care Pediatric Program Doubles Nursing Workforce as Census Grows

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The pediatric program’s current average daily census hovers around 240 patients, a climb from roughly 55 patients in 2008, according to Danielle Eaves, child life and therapeutic recreation specialist for the Community PedsCare program.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

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Howe is passionate regarding education as he leads teams of specially trained clinical staff, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses, social workers, chaplains and certified nurse aides, all of whom he believes are experts in the care of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.”. ALC Hospice Care Names COO.

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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

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Brazzale was the first physician to be selected for Trustbridge’s fellowship program when it launched in 2008 and has stuck with the nonprofit hospice provider ever since. Katherine Brazzale as its new chief medical officer of hospice services. Leigh Anderson will be its new medical director.

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Talking With a Hospice Chaplain

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Blane Brazier has worked full time in hospice since 2008. He currently works at Amity Hospice as their Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator where he also facilitates grief groups for bereaved family members. He has a unique ministry of using his guitar or sometimes the ukulele to engage the spiritual life of his patient's.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. Same for the nutritionist and the chaplain and all these people.