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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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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

Marylander is also a licensed clinical social worker and practiced law for 35 years prior to stepping into health care. One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email.

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

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So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate.

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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. My concern is still around the ability to recruit health care workers with the environment of nursing and doctor turnover and burnout.

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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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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

One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. Now, they were 2,000 miles away up until about six months ago, when which I moved them close.

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