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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

Hospice News

In 2017, the U.S. They can also provide education, services and advocacy related to grief and bereavement in mass-casualty incidents, as well as assist with public health surveillance and reporting. Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Increasingly, this factors into compliance.

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

Hospice News

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. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021.

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Grieving the Words: When Language Becomes a Battleground

AJN Off the Charts

Kbler-Rosss stages of grief remind me that loss, whether of a loved one or the language that defines the essence of one’s body of work, can evoke denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Grief is a process that requires compassion and time for healing. This shift is not happening organically, on our own terms.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

Hospice News

Wilson in 2008 became the organizations corporate and community relations coordinator before being promoted to manager in 2017. Maryland-based Montgomery Hospice & Prince Georges Hospice provides grief support and spiritual counseling, veteran services and pediatric hospice care.

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

Hospice News

He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017. In addition to hospice, HopeWest also provides palliative care and grief support services across an 8,000 square-mile region of western Colorado. Dr. Howe has more than 14 years of experience in hospice. He served in the same role prior to that at Optum Hospice since 2010.

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Bluegrass Care Names Clinical Services COO, Hospice Maui Appoints New CEO

Hospice News

Greene joined Bluegrass Care Navigators in 2017 as its vice president and chief hospice officer and brings 15 years of hospital leadership experience. Additionally, she helped build an endowment fund that supports the hospice’s community grief services and integrative therapies programs, along with providing direct patient assistance.

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Treating Burnout, Trauma, and Grief with Dance

Minority Nurse

It felt like I had both my joy and my grief coupled together in all that I did.” And in 2017, nurses weren ’ t ready to talk about it openly. Most along the lines of ‘ Thank you for giving us a language to understand the unrelenting grief and trauma we have been carrying with us,’” says Rynders.

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