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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

CMS introduced SIA in 2016. Patients may be receiving several visits from these professionals during the last days of life, or multiple visits on the same day, that do not count toward the measure, she said.

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Maribel Health Secures $25 Million in Series A Round, Aims to Build High-Acuity Home Care, Hospice Programs

Hospice News

The Ivy League coach and mother of three died in 2016 at age 41. The firm has also made substantial investments in the bereavement care tech company Empathy and the home-based mental health platform Rippl, among others. “As

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

Hospice News

“Stepping into 2024, I’m excited to share news that marks the beginning of a fresh chapter for Blue Ridge Hospice and those in our community in need of serious and chronic illness care, palliative care and bereavement support services,” Richard Kennedy, board of directors chair at Blue Ridge Hospice, said in an announcement.

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

Hospice News

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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St. Croix’s Strategic Executive Moves; NHPCO’s Ben Marcantonio Named Goodwin Living’s Board VP

Hospice News

Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016. The hospice provider also offers community-based palliative care and bereavement services. “We Established more than 40 years ago, the nonprofit provides hospice and offers patients art, music and pet therapy programs, as well as death doula services.

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Benefits of Art Therapy During Bereavement

Hospice of the North Coast

Moon, 2016, pp 8-9). Kelly Gelhaar, Art Therapist & Bereavement Counselor at Hospice of the North Coast. Early in her career she worked primarily with children and youth and has been working in Hospice Bereavement for the past four years. There is healing power in the process of making art and being witnessed by others.

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

An ethnophenomenological study exploring the choice of place for the death of a child with a non-oncological life limiting or life-threatening condition, used the stories of bereaved parents (Davis et al 2024b). A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents, Palliative Medicine, 35(8), pp. Håkanson, C.