Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. But what brought him to hospice was the bereavement care he and his family received following a loss.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth?

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Camillus, director of Uihlein Mercy Nursing Home in Lake Placid, worked to ensure hospice services would be available to nursing home residents. She also provided an opportunity for new hospice volunteers to be introduced to working with the infirm. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012.

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