Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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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. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care. It also directs the U.S.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Grief support. A 2020 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization , using data collected in 2018, states that over 50 percent of patients were receiving hospice care for 30 days or fewer.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. Since my mom died in 2020 until I wrote this piece in the fall of last year, I had not ever expected or intended to write about my experience.

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Hope Hospice

MAY 15, 2020

For immediate release: May 11, 2020. Understanding Loss and Grief”. Grief doesn’t just occur with the loss of a loved one. In this brief session, learn about grief processes and some coping strategies in the era of COVID-19. Panelists: Kathleen Brand, LMFT, ATR, Hope Hospice Grief Support Center Director.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. His second book, Letter to a Hospice Nurse , celebrates the lives of hospice patients and gives a format for surviving family and friends to process grief. Nursing is a second career for Derek J.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Like, just even having that and normalizing it, and, like, after 13 years of training or 15 or whatever, chaplains, nurses, social workers, patient care assistants, everyone is working in these systems that are not built to take care of them. This whole idea that our worth is not equal to our productivity. I can make decisions quickly.

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GeriPal

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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

That was January 2020. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. And Rachel Rush, who is a pediatric social. A palliative care social worker now at Colorado. The daughter was filled with anticipatory grief, regret, and anger. We’ve got to do that. But that was. And so we put it together.

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