Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

DayNew, a new tech platform launching today, aims to help individuals and families navigate the aftermath of a catastrophic loss, including bereavement. Through the app, the traumatized or bereaved receive a customized set of resources and services designed to help guide them through healing and grief, according to DayNew.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

Technology firms Empathy and Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) have partnered to expand the benefits that companies can offer to bereaved employees. Through this partnership, employees will be able to access Empathy’s bereavement support services through ShareCare’s home home-oriented product, CareLinx.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The nonprofit offers hospice, home health, grief support and childrens services. The nonprofit offers hospice, respite services, spiritual and bereavement support, as well as assistance with housekeeping, medical equipment and other supplies. The hospice offers a six-week grief and loss support program to community members.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The organizations announced their intent to affiliate last October, with leadership citing a shared goal to provide sustainable hospice, palliative care and bereavement services to communities across their combined geographic Florida footprint. The nonprofit provides hospice, palliative care and bereavement services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. We’re using that acronym to guide how we approach the scope of care that we’ll be providing.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

Right now, all of our bereavement support groups are in English only,” Wild told local news. ““We Children represent another underserved population on the hospice’s radar, including bereavement support. We are working with St. Luke’s Community Health to hold a Spanish-speaking group through a translator.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

In addition to providing hospice, the organization offers grief support and palliative care services at the Chesapeake Supportive Care and Chesapeake Life Center. The hospice in 2021 cared for more than 3,800 hospice patients as well as more than 2,095 on palliative care and close to 500 in bereavement.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The hospice also offers a summer grief program for bereaved children, Wing Camp, which launched in 2000. The hospice also provides outpatient mental health counseling services and bereavement support, including its youth grief program, Camp Wokini. Whitley joined the organization 29 years ago as a visiting nurse. “I

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Hosparus Health Grief Counseling Center is also located in the facility, offering mental health and bereavement care. . The organization also opened a 1,245-square-foot grief care center new Louisville, Kentucky. The facility includes an outpatient palliative clinic operated by Hosparus’ Pallitus Health Partners brand.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

HAP Foundation includes a Pediatric Palliative Care program, involving a network of providers that also offers bereavement care services. “Navigating grief and finding support can be complicated and isolating. We are planning to expand Missing Pieces to address broader grief needs for more families.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Rebranded as Foothills Compassionate Care, the hospice provider also offers palliative care, caregiver and grief support services as well as community education and resources. Thrift store revenue is allocated to support its Sierra Community Palliative Care program and bereavement services as well as to fund caregiver grants.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

APRIL 5, 2022

April Is Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month By Jacquelyn Buffo, MS, LPC, CAADC Losing a loved one to a terminal illness is one of the most painful experiences you can go through. The loss of a spouse or partner is traumatic for many people, and the grief journey can feel overwhelming, confusing, and painful.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The organization operates a general inpatient care facility, the Alexander Cohen Hospice, which also provides respite services.CHHS additional services include bereavement support and outpatient mental health services, as well as a youth grief program, Camp Wokini.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

They] can provide so much support from advance care planning to vigil assistance, and out in the community they can do early grief and bereavement support and can provide household support [and] respite caregiving.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Established nearly 45 years ago, the nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care to adult and pediatric patients, as well as grief and caregiver support, veteran services and specialized care for patients with HIV/AIDS, COPD and progressive memory impairment conditions.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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. Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

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. In times of visitation restrictions, for example, hospice personnel can act as liaisons between patients and families, Baker Rogers indicated.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Affiliating our two organizations is a step forward in achieving a shared ambition of sustainable palliative and end-of-life care and bereavement services, for patients and families in the communities that we serve,” Hospice & Community Care President and CEO Steve Knaub said in a statement.

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Three Oaks Hospice

APRIL 6, 2021

When a loved one faces the end of life, family members and friends go through a complex process of grief that can last for months or years. Three Oaks Hospice offers assistance to families in bereavement and can help you make the most of those last days spent with your loved one.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

FOCH funding provides resources, assistance and supplies to patients with terminal illness in the area, along with maintaining hospice volunteer programs such as its children’s grief support program, Camp Rainbow of Hope. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Founded in 1978, Hosparus Health’s 600 employees and 500 volunteers provide care for more than 10,000 patients annually, including hospice, medical care, palliative medicine, mental health and bereavement services. “We million community center, as well as a new grief center in July 2022.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

Holland Home Pours $2 Million into Inpatient Expansion Michigan-based Holland Home’s recently opened a new grief support center at its inpatient facility, investing $2 million in the expansion. Holland Home’s Faith Hospice operates the inpatient centers which also provides routine home care, palliative care and bereavement services.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

The nonprofit hospice offers bereavement care, caregiver resources and supportive care for pediatric populations. Maryland-based Montgomery Hospice & Prince Georges Hospice provides grief support and spiritual counseling, veteran services and pediatric hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. YoloCares provides hospice, palliative and supportive care, bereavement services and operates an adult day program across five counties in California. AMOREM serves 12 counties in the northwest region of its home state.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

In this episode, Hospice News editor Jim Parker speaks with Reid Peterson, founder of Grief Refuge, a technology platform designed to support bereaved families. The post Podcast #18: Reid Peterson, founder of Grief Refuge appeared first on Hospice News. Listen today! Apple Podcasts Soundcloud.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 6, 2022

April Is Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month By Jacquelyn Buffo, MS, LPC, CAADC Losing a loved one to a terminal illness is one of the most painful experiences you can go through. The loss of a spouse or partner is traumatic for many people, and the grief journey can feel overwhelming, confusing, and painful. However, each person.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Ohio’s Community Mercy Hospice Expands with De Novo Ohio’s Community Mercy Hospice has opened a de novo that will expand hospice and grief support to local communities.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. Formerly Hospice of St.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“Stepping into 2024, I’m excited to share news that marks the beginning of a fresh chapter for Blue Ridge Hospice and those in our community in need of serious and chronic illness care, palliative care and bereavement support services,” Richard Kennedy, board of directors chair at Blue Ridge Hospice, said in an announcement.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Along with administrative offices, the location will be home to Hospice of Washington County’s outpatient palliative care clinic, along with its bereavement and grief counseling offices.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

This can include more robust grief programs or palliative care, among others. We also use these funds to support bereavement programs.” As Graham pointed out, many hospices use thrift store revenue to support services that aren’t fully covered by the Medicare Hospice Benefit or other payer sources.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

(Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its affiliate group, the Hospice Action Network (HAN) applaud today’s introduction of the Grief Resilience Investment and Education Fund (GRIEF) Act in the House of Representatives by Congressman Joe Morelle (NY-25). Press Contact: . Madison Summers .

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Changing Lives Podcast

APRIL 22, 2022

Hope, Love, and Loss: Creating Your Pathway to Healing - a workshop for those who are grieving will be held on May 26 via Zoom. Register in advance. Event is free.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

Revenue from these thrift stores paid for care provided to uninsured patients as well as bereavement programs, NHPCO indicated. The hospice also offered a virtual memorial service for families and the public to celebrate the lives of their deceased loved ones and offer some comfort to one another in their grief.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Focus on Grief and Bereavement: Noting that more Americans are experiencing grief due to COVID-19 losses, the bill designates $1,000,000 for assessing the feasibility of developing consensus-based quality standards for high-quality bereavement and grief care. It also directs the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

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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