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. He has also held hospice chaplain roles at St.
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. It’s coming on hospice, knowing a doctor says you have less than six months to live. What is anticipatory grief? So somehow it puts a proximity or inevitability of death right in focus.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
This reality is driving some hospices to forge stronger collaborations with providers of after-loss services. 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.
Hospice News
AUGUST 2, 2024
New Jersey-based Hunterdon Hospice has relaunched its bereavement program aimed at supporting loved ones who have experienced a traumatic loss. The hospice provider temporarily halted the eight-week grief support program during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Set to restart on Aug.
Hospice News
MARCH 19, 2024
Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. Connecticut Children’s provides a range of 30 pediatric services, including hospice, and has more than 40 locations in its home state, New York and Massachusetts. The plan would have to be completed by Jan.
Hospice News
JUNE 24, 2022
A proliferating number of startups is developing tech solutions and services to support bereaved families, employing a range of business models — including partnerships with hospices. There’s never going to be enough hospice bereavement coordinators to make sure every single person gets what they need.
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