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The Ups and Downs of Inpatient Hospice Care: New Facilities Open as Others Close

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Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. The hospice provider also offers pet and music therapy, as well as bereavement support services.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Hollie Trogdon, Senior Vice President, PruittHealth Home

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Trogdon recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. Early on I knew I wanted to work in health care and needed a career in which I could find meaning and purpose.

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Primary Care Clinicians Provide Palliative Care Without Realizing It

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This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care. If the majority of palliative care can occur in the outpatient, general practice setting, this begs the question “What’s hospice for?” All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.

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Deathwives Founders: Death Doulas Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps, Ease Strain on Hospice Staff

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Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. A death doula is a non-medical provider trained to care for a terminally ill person and their family physically, emotionally and spiritually during the process of death.

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‘Normalizing’ Trauma-Informed Hospice Care Delivery

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Trauma-informed care challenges Recognition of the training gaps in trauma-informed end-of-life care delivery drove NPHI to establish a guide for providers, CEO Tom Koutsoumpas stated. The resource is intended to help providers prepare to support a swelling aging population with diverse needs, he said.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

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Good Shepherd Hospice is an affiliate of Chapters Health System and provides care to more than 4,200 patients across three counties in the Sunshine States. This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida. Census Bureau.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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Community leaders, and definitely faith community leaders. Eric 06:37 And then what was in the palliative care syringe what was the intervention? Marie 06:44 So the intervention was, I mean, it took us about a year to incorporate and then get feedback on the aspects of palliative care consultation that needed to be sort of tweaked.