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Hospices Shaking Up Executive Teams

Hospice News

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. Additionally, Bivek Pathak has become Empath Health’s chief information and digital strategy officer after holding a similar position at Trustbridge since 2013.

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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

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Established in 1981, Blue Ridge offers hospice, palliative care and community grief support services. These include the launch of a new community grief center, continued PACE service development and “rapid expansion” in Virginia due to rising demand, Kennedy stated. We’re very much looking ahead to this year,” Parsons told local news.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

Hospice News

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Established roughly 40 years ago, the community-based nonprofit offers hospice, palliative care and home health, along with grief support and home care programs for children coping with illness and loss.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

In addition to hospice, HopeWest also provides palliative care and grief support services across an 8,000 square-mile region of western Colorado. The organization operates an inpatient hospice facility in that area. She is responsible for developing programs to meet the needs of the community. Jarecki announced his retirement last year.

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Providers, Including Ohio’s Hospice, Feel the Squeeze from Inflation and Flat Reimbursement Growth

Hospice News

Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013. In addition to hospice, Ohio’s Hospice offers advance care planning services, along with caregiver, grief support and veterans programs. Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, the group of community-based hospices serve more than 60 counties statewide.

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

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He held similar positions from 2013 to 2016 at Kindred at Home before it became CenterWell Home Health, Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services business. Proceeds from the stores fund its grief program, Wings of Hope Family Bereavement Camps, and also help support hospice patients and families with special needs.

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This belief is based on adult studies (Bluebond-Langner et al 2013; Bluebond-Langner et al 2015), and both Pollock (2015) and Rainsford et al (2018) argue that the assertion that home is the preferred place is not supported by evidence. References Bluebond-Langner, M.