Changing Lives Podcast

JULY 2, 2024

The 2023-2024 Annual Report provides a snapshot of our programs, services, finances, and successes from the past fiscal year. We serve a population of over 110,000 in Quinte West, Belleville, Deseronto, Tyendinaga Township and the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

It’s about sharing why hospice holds personal significance and why serious illness and end-of-life care policy should resonate with our lawmakers,” said Logan Hoover, NHPCO’s VP of Policy & Government Relations. “The cornerstone of effective advocacy is storytelling.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

November 30, 2023 — By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care, and Hope Hospice today announced they will merge to become the largest independent not-for-profit hospice network in Northern California, uniquely positioned to provide compassionate care and impactful community services to more patients and families throughout the region.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This represented an 18% decline compared to the 2023 survey results. The most pressing issue facing hospice leaders is fueling a sufficient supply of qualified staff to meet a diverse range of end-of-life care needs among patients and families, according to Robert Love, executive director of California-based Butte Home Health & Hospice.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Bereavement counseling will be available to families at the center for 13 months following the death of a loved one, as well as respite services for caregivers. Patients at the reopened inpatient hospice will receive 24/7 end-of-life care. The group has public demonstrations spanning back to September 2023.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

This article details recent key research findings on hospice care, including the effects of telehealth utilization among terminally ill pediatric patients, along with barriers to improved goal-concordant end-of-life care in Asia, Canada and Europe. This compared to a separate 2023 Canadian study that found 16.1%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The home health organization has provided care in Denver, Colorado, since 1923. Becoming Medicare-certified in April 2023, the hospice served its first patient last June. Starting out as a global pandemic ended was a difficult feat, said CFO Carlos Quintanilla. That was a process and a big learning experience for us all.

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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. The data was analysed using the MIRACLE narrative framework (Younas et al 2023), and Labov’s six part narrative analysis model (Labov 1972). The data collected was narrative.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In this week’s blog, the 5th and final of our CYP series, Gilda Davis @GildaMDavis, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Worcester discusses challenges affecting children’s palliative care. As such, the services that are currently available are going to find themselves under further increasing pressure.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

The theme of the seminar ‘A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care’ is highly relevant as 2023 marks 75 years since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nationals General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Another piece of legislation is a bereavement bill. If passed, it provides funding for bereavement programs to expand their services and reach people who might not otherwise have access to grief and support services. What are your thoughts on how the 2023 final rule will affect providers and patients?

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