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Hospices Leverage School-Based Partnerships to Strengthen Bereavement Care

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Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

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Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations. He first joined that company as its executive vice president of clinical services and CMO in 2002 while holding a similar role at Hospice of the Piedmont from 2019 to 2020. Muir was previously chief innovation officer at Capital Caring Health.

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

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In 2019, the state enacted a palliative care law, aimed at identifying patients who could benefit from these services and making information more readily available to them.”. Nationwide, the burden on bereaved families is severe, other research has found. The average cost to the bereaved exceeds $12,000, according to that report.

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NPHI Guide Designed to Help Hospices Address Mental Health Needs

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This growing need has spurred the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) to recently develop its Community Counseling Guide to help member providers structure bereavement services, including best practices for billing. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

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population has little to no understanding of what palliative care is, including many clinicians in a position to refer patients and their families, according to a 2019 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S. These types of services are often under-reimbursed or not covered at all by payers.

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

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AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1981, Blue Ridge offers hospice, palliative care and community grief support services. Tortorella joined AccentCare as CEO last September.

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Deathwives Founders: Death Doulas Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps, Ease Strain on Hospice Staff

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Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. Carroll and Merelli founded Deathwives in 2019 to assist families facing the death of a loved one. Deathwives was formed in 2019. Merelli: I got into doulaship as a birth doula in 2009.