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Two Hospices Halt Services Amid Staffing Shortages

Hospice News

Hospice and Home Care of Juneau shutters. Alaska-based Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) recently announced its closure, citing high staffing costs and lack of clinicians. HHCJ had two hospice and 17 home health patients on its services when the closure took effect on October 19.

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Counseling Awareness Month

AT Home Care & Hospice

Counseling in the Post-Acute Healthcare Setting In acute healthcare settings, such as an inpatient stay at the hospital, the quality care delivered to patients is facilitated by readily available resources such as multidisciplinary healthcare teams all operating out of one facility.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

Hospice News

In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Hospices also lack quality measures associated with bereavement care.

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LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

Hospice News

LeadingAge also recommended that: Congress create a hospice room-and-board level of care that allows patients to die outside their homes without qualifying for general inpatient care or inpatient respite care Congress instruct CMS to allow patients to receive the respite level of care in their homes Federal lawmakers clarify minimum standards and the (..)

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

This was actually a bereaved person, and they said that because their person had planted those tulips it reminded them constantly of them. So building our health care system on this idea — and it’s true, not only in hospice but in any home care and child care. Not all families are able to do that.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

High Peaks Hospice

In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. The program was unique, providing family oriented comprehensive services which included medical, nursing, social work, spiritual care, volunteer support, bereavement services as well as the availability of specialty care by physical therapists, nutritionists and speech therapists.

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