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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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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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The Tangled Web of Pediatric Palliative Care Payment and Policy

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Regulatory questions Lagging reimbursement and complicated regulations have made it difficult to sustain community-based pediatric palliative care programs, said Dr. Tom McNally, medical director of George Mark Children’s House.

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

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Muir also has served as the medical director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations’ (CMMI) high-needs Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. The hospice also offers a summer grief program for bereaved children, Wing Camp, which launched in 2000.

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Homeland at Home Launches Community-Based Palliative Care Program

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The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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Understanding the Shifting Regulations on Psychedelics for the Terminally Ill

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He is a facilitator for Drugs Over Dinner, a nonprofit education initiative around psychedelic therapies in end-of-life care and bereavement services. Steinberg is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc. We are in this sort of psychedelic Renaissance era of therapeutics.

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Hospices Facilities Launch, Renovate With Growth in Mind

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The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. Delaware Hospice also provides bereavement support and nonmedical transitional services.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

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This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida. The Hosparus Health Resource Center will extend bereavement services and education to underserved communities in that area.

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