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Several Large Hospice Providers See Leadership Transitions

Hospice News

Empath Health offers hospice, home health, palliative care, bereavement support, adult day services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) programs, and primary, elderly and geriatric care. The nonprofit organization has grown into one of the largest hospice providers in the nation.

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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

This is according to Amber Ash, pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker at Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve. Trauma-informed education should be a normalized part of hospice’s interdisciplinary training to help staff recognize and respond to a range of experiences, Ash indicated. Navy Reserve.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

The team has grown to a team of seven palliative care doctors, two nurses, two social workers, a peer worker, a psychiatrist, and an interprofessional roster of home care professionals who are working in non traditional home settings to deliver palliative care. The Peach program has cared for over 1,000 clients.

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2024 AAHPM Visionary Elizabeth Hart, MD

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily. I look to them all as my guides.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

Here you are listening, listening to these former caregivers, these bereaved caregivers tell their stories and giving them an opportunity to give back and contribute. ” Or for a social worker, “Where are we going to discharge them to?” Isn’t anybody listening?” ” Right? I love that.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling.

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