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. The company operates more than 250 locations in 31 states and the District of Columbia, caring for roughly 200,000 patients and families annually.

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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. Marylander is also a licensed clinical social worker and practiced law for 35 years prior to stepping into health care. Hathaway’s challenges inspired the launch of PALS’ after-loss services in 2021.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

National Alliance for Care at Home Announces New COO National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) recently announced Sherl Brand as its new COO, who will ascend into the role in January. She was also on the board of directors at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

A complex web of state regulations and reimbursement systems can challenge pediatric palliative care access for seriously ill children and their families. Our health care system in the United States is really designed for adult illness care. He and his wife Holly Cottor are co-founders of Ryan House in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

Idaho-based Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley has initiated Spanish-speaking services in an effort to reach underserved Latino patients and families. Right now, all of our bereavement support groups are in English only,” Wild told local news. ““We We are working with St.

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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

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 7, 2025

So our scope of care includes home health, both skilled and non-skilled, and it includes hospice. Eventually, we hope to do palliative care. Our model of care across all of those service lines is built around an offering acronym, CARE. How do you anticipate this scope of services to take shape?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. The foundation aims to identify and address gaps in the health care continuum to help improve the quality of life for the seriously and terminally ill.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care and Treasure Coast Health on Tuesday completed their affiliation, a move nearly a year in the making after the two Florida-based nonprofits signaled they would join forces. Combined, the two organizations provide hospice and palliative care to more than 7,000 patients annually across Brevard, Martin, St.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Given the crucial role that caregivers play in families, their well-being is central to palliative care, and providers need to assist these caregivers by developing sustainable models of support for them. In the United States, more than 40 million adults provide palliative care for family members.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Iowa-based Hospice of Washington County is rebuilding and relocating its administrative offices, which also houses the provider’s palliative care clinic. electing the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. By 2030, seniors are projected to make up more than a quarter or 26.9%

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. Eric 07:47 And then the actual.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

The legislation comes at a time of critical need for supportive services, according to Kerry Moss, palliative care division head at Connecticut Children’s. The pediatric provider launched its palliative care services roughly a decade ago, Moss said. So expanding the bill to include palliative care will be important.”

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

The organization based its findings on indicators such as the number of people who passed away in their homes, the availability of palliative care, access to green burials and funeral costs. . The analysis also took into account the ratio of Medicare-certified health care providers to eligible patients, as well as probate processes.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He oversaw its daily operations as Calvary integrated services with parent organization ArchCare, the health care ministry of the Archdiocese of New York. Calvary is the only hospital in the United States thats specifically dedicated to providing hospice and palliative care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

The unification will “allow for greater consistency across the Hospice of the Chesapeake service area,” the hospice and palliative care provider indicated in an announcement. In addition to providing hospice, the organization offers grief support and palliative care services at the Chesapeake Supportive Care and Chesapeake Life Center.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

NPHI is a national advocacy organization with more than 100 nonprofit advanced illness care providers, including those offering hospice and palliative care services. The hospice also offers a summer grief program for bereaved children, Wing Camp, which launched in 2000.

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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. Symptoms included depression and anxiety, among others. Estimates suggest that U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

Providing hospice and palliative care to patients in remote regions can come with significant challenges alongside innovative opportunities to improve quality, according to Cathy Stauffer Wozniak, executive director at Hospice & Palliative Care of Martha Vineyards (HPCMV).

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula. She serves as vice-chair of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council.

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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. California-based Hospice of the Foothills unveiled a rebranding strategy aimed at better communicating its expanded suite of services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

This partnership marks an important milestone in our mission to deliver exceptional hospice and palliative care. The organization is a subsidiary of Western Reserve Care Solutions and serves 15 counties throughout northern Ohio. Photo by Pixelate Photography.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. They were at best insufficiently supportive and at worst partially obstructive to provision of hospice care in disasters.” COVID-19 caused widespread disruption across the health care system, including among hospices.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This extends the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider’s Green River location, which cares for patients in five Kentucky counties. “We The facility includes an outpatient palliative clinic operated by Hosparus’ Pallitus Health Partners brand. Hosparus Health has cut the ribbon on a $1.7

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

AMOREM provides hospice care across 12 counties in the northwestern region of North Carolina. The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. AMOREM also has an advanced cardiac care program.

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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. To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Many patients fall through the cracks of the nation’s health care system, and hospice and palliative care providers can help to fill in some of those gaps, according to Sonya Dolan, director of operations at California-based Mettle Health. The closest we’ve come to defining it is a ‘philosophy of care.’”

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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. . 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.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

The unit allows for expanded access to inpatient hospice care in the community during a time of increasing need, according to Ron Gicca, president of Melbourne Regional Medical Center. The compassionate palliative care services that are available to the Melbourne community are so greatly appreciated,” Gicca said in an announcement. “We

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