Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

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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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

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. Do you have a mortuary?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Bereaved families often face tremendous challenges fielding a barrage of tasks following a loved ones’ death, according to Grant Marylander, grief counselor at Trail Winds Hospice, which provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care. White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

Aside from parental losses, children who attend summer grief programs have often experienced the loss of a grandparent or a sibling, according to Jasmine Kendrick, grief counselor and social worker at Angela Hospice. That’s among the innovative programs that we’re doing to do more for families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

When you’re looking to build this service you have to have enough people to choose from, and we are really struggling right now in the nursing workforce, social workers, and other support staff – especially since the pandemic hit,” Wodatch told Hospice News. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For instance, if you have a patient with a lot of family “drama,” you might want to get the social worker involved so you can focus on providing nursing care while the social worker focuses on social issues. Interdisciplinary Team.

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