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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

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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. Increasingly, this factors into compliance. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

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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. and MedStar Health.

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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.

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

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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. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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

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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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New CEOs Tapped at Adory, Montgomery, Prince George Hospices

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Aaby previously served as CFO from 1998 to 2017 at the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. The hospice and palliative provider also offers grief support and services to help address patients’ unmet pet needs. She will step into the role this June. The nonprofit is a subsidiary of Western Wisconsin Health and St.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks .