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Shoring Up the Next Generation of Hospice Chaplains

Hospice News

Hospice chaplains often have little recourse for upward mobility along their career ladders. More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.

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Addressing Anticipatory Grief: A Hospice Chaplain’s Perspective

Hospice News

All hospices provide some form of bereavement care after a patient dies, but many families need help with anticipatory grief as well. I think the main role as the chaplain in anticipatory grief is just the boldness, the willingness to step into the situation and acknowledge that death is imminent. Is there a need for reconciliation?

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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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Bill Would Create New State-Level Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

It’s [about] how we can ensure that we’re providing psychosocial support, chaplains, social workers, child life specialists, therapists, bereavement coordinators [to] meet all of their care needs,” Cortezzo told Hospice News. The ability to build care collaborations is a large part of improving access, she stated.

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Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children

Hospice News

Keeping up with demand A significant component of grief programs is having sufficiently trained bereavement coordinators supported by interdisciplinary professionals and volunteers, Kendrick stated. “We Through grief counseling, we can support kids and families with other losses than a terminal illness.”

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Talking With a Hospice Chaplain

Journey With Deanna

He currently works at Amity Hospice as their Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator where he also facilitates grief groups for bereaved family members. He has a unique ministry of using his guitar or sometimes the ukulele to engage the spiritual life of his patient's.

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Ep. 11 - Special Edition: Healing Through COVID-19: Finding Resilience in Times of Crisis

HPNA podcast

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