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The Rise of Tech-Enabled Grief Care

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A proliferating number of startups is developing tech solutions and services to support bereaved families, employing a range of business models — including partnerships with hospices. There’s never going to be enough hospice bereavement coordinators to make sure every single person gets what they need.

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Hospices Step Up Pediatric Bereavement Care Amid Rising Demand

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Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Research indicates that the number of bereaved children nationwide is growing. The organization additionally researches child bereavement services and needs.

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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health.

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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

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The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Vermont, Utah Ranked ‘Best Places to Die’ by PolicyGenius

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Incidentally, as of 2018 Utah also had the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 60.5%, compared to that year’s national average of 50.3%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). For deaths at home, for example, the report included numbers from 2018 to 2021.

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Hospices Shaking Up Executive Teams

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The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. Clark has served as a board member of the nonprofit hospice provider since 2022, and from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, Clark served as a board member from 2014 to 2018 before returning to her post in 2022.

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St. Francis Reflections Lifestage Care Launches New Florida Inpatient Hospice Center

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Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. The Sunshine State in 2018 ranked third nationwide for hospice utilization at 57.9%

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