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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

Logistics complicate grief journeys Coping with the logistics of a loved one’s death can complicate the grief process, said Deneale White, a clinically trained chaplain with more than 30 years of experience in social and ministry services. White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka.

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EdenHill Senior Living Communities Starts In-House Hospice Business

Hospice News

The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers. EdenHill Communities, established in 1906, offers a continuum of care that includes independent and assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, caregiving and now hospice services.

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Valley Health System, Family of Caring Launch Palliative Care Partnership

Hospice News

Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care. New Jersey-based Valley Health System is partnering with Family of Caring Healthcare to offer palliative services to their patients.

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Nonprofit Startup Emmaus Catholic Hospice: Supportive Culture Key to ‘Rapid Growth’

Hospice News

Owens: We are a home hospice provider and take care of patients wherever they call home, whether it’s with family or in their own home or at a skilled nursing, memory care or assisted living facility. We have patients at roughly 15 different facilities in Denver and provide the full gamut of hospice care to people in their homes.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. Were you saying you started off by talking about somebody who might have conflicts of interest, like the person who runs the assisted living facility or something like that.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

Hospice News

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. I have people who say, “I love that model, but I don’t want a chaplain, I just want a nurse and a social worker.”. Now, they were 2,000 miles away up until about six months ago, when which I moved them close. So what do we do?

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