Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“Like many other hospice and home health programs across the nation, as the national health care worker shortage continues and the cost of health care staff and other expenses skyrocket, we are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the rising costs of doing business.”. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.6% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2024

Patients at the new 30,000-square-foot facility will have access to 24/7 general inpatient hospice care. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. As the southern part of the country continues to grow, the need for hospice care becomes increasingly critical,” Del Campo said. “Our

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to hospice, Anthony House also offers grief services as part of its Supportive Care Ministries program for bereaved individuals. Individuals also receive personal care assistance with meal preparation, medication management, personal hygiene and companionship. The nonprofit was named in memory of Anthony Spinella Sr.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

“For people who don’t have a caregiver in their home, we can put them in our facility and they can live there until their natural death, and they’ll have access to specially trained caregivers in end-of-life care,” Strzalka told local news. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Fratkin is a chair on American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s “Safe Use of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy” forum and also sits on the Compassion & Choices’ health care advisory council. In 2020, Oregon essentially decriminalized the personal use of a number of drugs that remain illegal at the federal level.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Many patients fall through the cracks of the nation’s health care system, and hospice and palliative care providers can help to fill in some of those gaps, according to Sonya Dolan, director of operations at California-based Mettle Health. Miller serves as president and counselor at Mettle Health.

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Solace

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2023, some new laws will impact those at the end of life or the people caring for, or grieving, them. Bereavement leave and caregiving. California has a new law requiring most private and public employers grant employees up to five unpaid days of bereavement leave after the death of a family member.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Under Cottrell’s leadership, the hospice in 2020 expanded its service lines to include palliative care. Patients at the hospice house receive 24/7 inpatient end-of-life care from nurses and aides. CHPC provides end-of-life services to homebound and facility-based patients.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

Trauma-informed care challenges Recognition of the training gaps in trauma-informed end-of-life care delivery drove NPHI to establish a guide for providers, CEO Tom Koutsoumpas stated. Approximately 1-in-24 incidents occurring among seniors nationwide are not reported annually, a 2020 Elsevier study found.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The quality of life was probably not the best measure and we actually measured it in both patients and family caregivers. But again, hindsight’s 2020 probably wasn’t the best measure to look the other one we tested in an exploratory way was feeling heard and understood. And then we enrolled patients and caregivers.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death. 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home? Research that considers the place of death of children where death is expected, varies in number depending on diagnosis.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In considering the potential impact of providing children’s palliative and end of life care to an increasing number of children, some assumptions need to be challenged. 2015) Bereaved carers’ accounts of the end of life and the role of care providers in a “good death”: a qualitative study, Palliative Medicine, 29(9), pp.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Working with death doulas has helped some hospices improve awareness and understanding of their services, as well as assist families with issues they face at the end of a loved one’s life, according to some providers. Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech?

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