Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. The legislation was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

” Health systems provide close to half of the palliative care delivered in the United States, according to 2019 research by the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Our team of chaplains supports all our patients, with a special focus on palliative care patients. Hospices provide most of the remaining 50%.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Howe is passionate regarding education as he leads teams of specially trained clinical staff, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses, social workers, chaplains and certified nurse aides, all of whom he believes are experts in the care of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Anderson is charged with overseeing Our Hospice’s team of clinicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, home health aides, social workers, chaplains and volunteers, as well as building relationships with referral sources. “I She replaces Dr. Roy Goode, who has twice served as Our Hospice’s interim medical director, most recently since 2019.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

This followed the launch of its dementia care and family support program in 2019. Williamson was most recently the chaplain and volunteer coordinator at Suncrest Home Health & Hospice since 2021. He has also held chaplain roles at VCU Health and Freda H. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2024

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. The company also focuses on staff training for culturally appropriate and LGBTQ+ inclusive care delivery.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I’ve been his caregiver since November 2019, when Hospice Care Plus started caring for him in our home. But Junann, our hospice chaplain, said, “God makes a way out of no way.” For most of them, we were married. Then came the divorce, which was more about circumstances than our feelings. Afterward, we stayed close.

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Trained as a chaplain as part of her second career after she has been involved with film making, Chaplain Scott helped evolve a chaplaincy role within cancer care and palliative care. She was one of the first certified chaplains. She was one of the first certified chaplains.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. Ali John 11:34 Yep.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

“Our organization is dedicated to a psychosocial and spiritual approach, and I can’t think of a better type of person to support an individual and their family than someone who works as an end-of-life doula or a hospice chaplain or volunteer.” Momentum has been building towards the decriminalization of psychedelics, often for medical use.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Researchers reviewed electronic medical record data for nearly 2,000 adolescents and young adults who died between 2003 and 2019. When their last documented goals of care were evaluated, 69% of these patients chose care that focused on palliation, the study found.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Carroll and Merelli founded Deathwives in 2019 to assist families facing the death of a loved one. Deathwives was formed in 2019. In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community. It’s a benefit that we give and try to work with providers on expanding.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

The study found that more than half of ED visits among patients with cancer, 51.6%, were identified as potentially preventable, with the absolute number of potentially preventable ED visits increasing substantially between 2012 and 2019.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. And yet there are reasons for caution.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We are really trying to be mindful of the breadth of experience people bring, you know, to be sure that we have chaplains telling stories, social workers, physicians, apps, et cetera. There was a doctor, there was a nurse, there was a chaplain, there was a social worker and there was my dad and there was me and my husband and my mom.

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