Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

North Carolina-based Hospice of Davidson County (HODC) will soon unveil a summer grief camp for bereaved children and teens. Dubbed Camp Comfort, the new grief program launches this Thursday for children in 1st through 5th grade. Children are often overlooked when it comes to processing loss and grief,” Warner said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

After five years of planning, the post-acute services provider AccentCare recently re-organized its bereavement care services, which are now coordinated from a national center. Among AccentCare’s services, bereavement care is its most widely used, about 65,000 people per day.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Fraudulent activity in the hospice space may be leaving some families without sufficient bereavement support. Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated. The impacts of fraudulent activity in hospice on patients and their families can be devastating,” Kraus told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Greater education and preparation around the logistical aspects of death and bereavement is needed to better support grieving families. 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.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2022

Proposed federal legislation could advance the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. Considered “report language,” the bereavement portion of the bill is a recommendation to federal agencies to pursue its stated objectives. The legislation “encourages” the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Research indicates that the number of bereaved children nationwide is growing. The organization additionally researches child bereavement services and needs.

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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

JUNE 20, 2024

Training staff and volunteers to provide developmentally-appropriate grief support is among the key parts of operating summer camp programs for children and adolescents suffering a recent loss. Majority of the children who attend the grief program have lost a parent or guardian due to a chronic illness, according to Drescher.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The opening expands upon the nonprofit hospice’s existing bereavement services, according to Regional Hospice President and CEO Cynthia Emiry Roy. “We

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. The massive loss of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic — more than 1 million deaths since 2020 — has spurred demand for bereavement care and was a partial impetus for the legislation. .

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

NYSE: MET) is collaborating with Empathy to offer the bereavement care technology company’s platform to the insurance giant’s employees and beneficiaries. Bereavement care tech startup Empathy launched in 2021 with an app designed to help reduce the burden on grieving families and provide additional layers of emotional support.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

California-based Hoffmann Hospice has established a grief camp designed for children and teens who are mourning a first responder. The organization expects 10 to 12 participants in 2024, compared to about 30 for their more general grief programs for children, according to Ryan D’Amato, family support manager for Hoffmann Hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

The grief care startup Betterleave has established partnerships with two Texas Hospices, Sonder Hospice in Austin and LoveWell Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. It also connects families with support groups and workshops; materials such as articles, videos and journals and a network of grief experts.

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Life & Death Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

National Grief and Bereavement Day is a time to reflect on the profound impact of loss and the vital role of community support during times of grief. This day prompts us to recognize the universal nature of loss, the individual experience of grief, and the power of collective empathy and care facilitated by communities.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to hospice, Anthony House also offers grief services as part of its Supportive Care Ministries program for bereaved individuals. Dubbed The Retreat at Quarters Lake, services available at the new center include individual grief counseling and support groups, as well as art, music and pet therapies. To date, more 1.2

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children Many hospices offer summer grief camps for bereaved children and adolescents, which come with a host of operational and logistical considerations. Hospices have taken varied approaches to shaping their youth grief programs, but common threads exist.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

More than 70% of respondents to a survey by the bereavement care tech platIform Empathy reported at least one mental health symptom for a few weeks after the death of a loved one; 58% indicated that the symptoms lasted for several months. businesses lose over $100 billion a year to grief-related absenteeism, reduced productivity and turnover.”

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2022

Tech startup Autumn has developed a death care digital marketplace to connect bereaved families with services. These include accountants, appraisers, attorneys, funeral homes, grief specialists, and other organizations that help families address the legal, financial, and logistical concerns that follow the death of a loved one.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Nationwide, the burden on bereaved families is severe, other research has found. Families spend as many as 500 hours over as long as 13 months completing administrative tasks related to their loved one’s death, a recent report from the bereavement care technology company Empathy found.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech company Betterleave has secured $2.4 Austin-based Betterleave Bereavement launched as a venture capital-backed startup in March 2022. The company’s bereavement care platform is designed as a benefit that companies can offer their employees who have lost a loved one, a pregnancy or a pet.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

This growing need has spurred the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) to recently develop its Community Counseling Guide to help member providers structure bereavement services, including best practices for billing. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Grief education is an additional huge part of the hospice program, she said. Engaging students in conversations about death, dying and bereavement is an important component of normalizing these topics throughout their lifetime.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The bereavement care tech startup Empathy has secured $47 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures. The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, validating a will and other essentials.

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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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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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