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New Pediatric Center Aims to Improve Patient, Family Support

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Weighing the staffing, patient needs The new pediatric center will include features such as a sensory therapeutic playroom, a family gathering and events area, a child life specialist center and creative arts room, a music therapy room, a bereavement counseling space, a chapel, meeting rooms and a family office center.

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

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Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. Its also for us to really learn how we can best support them in the event that they eventually need our services. How do you anticipate this scope of services to take shape?

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Hospice of the Western Reserve Completes Affiliation With Hospice of North Central Ohio

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The nonprofit provides hospice, palliative care and bereavement services in Ashland, Knox and Richland counties. The councils will ensure improved health care access and utilization and help with event and volunteer engagement, among other responsibilities. Photo by Pixelate Photography.

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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

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Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. They can also provide education, services and advocacy related to grief and bereavement in mass-casualty incidents, as well as assist with public health surveillance and reporting. Increasingly, this factors into compliance.

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Innovation Keeps Hospice Philanthropy Afloat Despite COVID

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As some events and other fundraisers start to rebound, providers are carrying with them lessons learned during leaner years. When we realized we weren’t going to be able to have the event, we asked our donors to support us through the pandemic. We do events, but it’s not our primary source of fundraising.

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VITAS, Big Bend, Heart to Heart, Family Hospice Unveil New Locations

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Its most recent de novo features a wraparound porch and meeting spaces for community events and bereaved families. The locally-owned and operated organization’s services include hospice, bereavement care, medication management and assistance with durable medical equipment. De novos have been a core of VITAS’ growth strategy.

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Health Systems Leverage Philanthropy to Grow Hospice, Palliative Services

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Funding palliative, bereavement care Illinois-based Endeavor Health serves more than 1.3 Bereavement programs are another area of hospice care that require ample funding to sustain, according to Melissa Ward, post-acute care executive at Adventist Health, and its Chief Mission and Philanthropy Officer Alex Bryan.

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