Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. Alive Hospice provides bereavement services to roughly 700 adults and children in Tennessee annually. “As The organization provided hospice care to 4,719 patients and families in 2021, as well as 21 pediatric hospice patients.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

Empath Health has completed its affiliation with Trustbridge, making the organization the largest nonprofit post-acute care provider in the state of Florida. The affiliation includes Trustbridge’s hospice brands, Hospice of Palm Beach County and Hospice by the Sea.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

“I am excited to join the executive team at Hospice of the Chesapeake and support future growth of the organization as well as continue to ensure the delivery of the highest-quality supportive and hospice care to the community,” Fetzer said. The organization operates an inpatient hospice facility in that area.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Empath Health is the parent company of Tidewell Hospice and Suncoast Hospice, and offers a range of other senior care services. The company provides hospice, home health, palliative and personal care to more than 12,000 patients daily across the Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida areas.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support. She is also founder and owner of Your Total Health Clinic and Day Spa, a women’s wellness center in Houston that began services in 2020.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4% in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. A swelling aging population is rising demand for serious and terminal illness care statewide.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Telehealth extension: The legislation extends hospice telehealth flexibilities through the end of 2024, which were initially enacted as part of the CARES Act in 2020. This allows hospice patients and providers to continue to use telehealth for low touch, face-to-face visits prior to recertification for the hospice benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative, grief support and advanced care planning services. Among others moving up the ranks at Transcend was Courtney Penn, senior client advisor.

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Hospice of the North Coast

APRIL 4, 2023

Hospice care can be a challenging and emotional experience for patients and their families. Hospice volunteers play a critical role in supporting patients and their loved ones during this time. After graduating, I continued to offer bereavement counseling through the hospice to individuals, groups, and at Pacifica House.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The comfort care home that were going to bring to Oswego County is critically important because we dont have a facility where people nearing the end of life can stay and have 24-hour care provided for them, Spinella told local news. We want to utilize the beautiful landscaping here to offer non-traditional grief support as well.

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NHPCO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“People in the final stages of life should have access to the compassionate care that hospice and palliative care provide. Our nation is suffering a collective and overwhelming grief as a result of this pandemic,” Representative Joe Morelle said. ” . “

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

Approximately 1-in-24 incidents occurring among seniors nationwide are not reported annually, a 2020 Elsevier study found. Established 40 years ago, the Virginia-based nonprofit provides community-based hospice, advanced integrative care and grief support services across predominantly rural regions.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Some hospices have recently expanded the reach of their inpatient services while other providers have temporarily shuttered these programs. AMOREM Set to Launch Inpatient Facility North Carolina-based AMOREM will soon unveil a new inpatient hospice care facility to help improve access in its home state.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The center marks the latest move in Regional Hospice’s strategic growth plans. Construction for the North Star wing is underway.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earlier in the year, Yonah Klein was appointed director of strategy at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care. Technology a key to growing home-based hospice care, workforce The future of end-of-life care is heading further into the home, according to Klein. Skelly Wingard, became CEO of By the Bay Health in June.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many seniors have experienced some form of trauma or abuse in their lifetime, which can carry impacts for those both delivering and receiving hospice care. This is the first of a two-part series that will examine the challenges that hospice patients and employees face related to abuse and trauma experiences and how providers respond.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Legal Hospice of Texas’ services include estate planning, debt counseling, and assistance with employment, housing, and social security and disability benefits. The law firm served roughly 550 individuals statewide in 2020. The nonprofit hospice has served patients in the area since 1979.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The center’s services will include support and educational resources for individuals and families coping with serious and terminal illnesses, grief and end-of-life situations in the community of Calvert County, Maryland. Hospice of the Chesapeake provides services in four west coast Maryland counties. million toward an expansion.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Revisiting this complex topic for a third time, Mitch Ware takes a deeper look into the seven stages of grief and explores how we cycle through them. We've addressed grief in two previous episodes. Well, today, we're going to take a look at a little different perspective at grief and the ways to manage it. Grief just sucks.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Why should someone start hospice sooner than later? Making the decision to start hospice care for your loved one is overwhelming. But the decision is also empowering, because an array of supportive care and assistance becomes available to both the patient and family. Grief support. Accepting Grief.

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Living With Hospice

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I'm your host today for Living With Hospice. You know, 2020, it's been a crazy year to say the least. It's all part of the grief cycle. And the grief process is a real thing. And the hospice agency you're working with. Now, what if your loved one is at home in hospice care? My name is Mitch Ware.

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Living With Hospice

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Originally published in 2020, LWH's classic episode on how to handle the Holidays is once again returning for the season! I'm your host today for Living With Hospice. You know, 2020, it's been a crazy year to say the least. It's all part of the grief cycle. And the grief process is a real thing.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care. Nursing is a second career for Derek J.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. Loss is the thing that triggers grief and then we talk about grief.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Let's start with the fact that there is a real thing called the grief cycle or the grief process. You know, there are five basic steps to the grief cycle, there's denial, there's anger, there's bargaining. But here's some typical emotions that I see in families when loved ones are in hospice care when I go visit them.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

A lack of trained staff and evolving health laws are among the leading barriers to expanding perinatal palliative and hospice care among underserved populations. It’s about plugging these populations into the health system better, regardless of ethnicity, race or background, and give them the care they need.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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