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‘Small But Significant’ Keys to Amplifying Hospice Grief Support

Hospice News

Building strong bereavement programs comes with myriad considerations around community outreach, collaboration development and strategic planning. Ensuring that hospices bereavement programs are equipped to support grieving families of all walks takes thoughtful consideration and a two-pronged strategic approach, she stated.

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Blue Ridge Hospice Brings Services Under New Unified Brand

Hospice News

This includes Blue Ridges hospice and palliative care programs, its Center for Hope & Healing bereavement center and its subsidiary Blue Ridge Independence at Home Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). The new brand brings all of the companys business lines together in a single, cohesive identity.

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Shoring Up the Next Generation of Hospice Chaplains

Hospice News

More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. We need chaplains trained in hospice and palliative care philosophy who know tons about medical ethics, goals of care and complex bereavement.

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St. Croix’s New Minnesota Location Supports Staff Amid Growth

Hospice News

You have a nurse, you have a chaplain, you have a social worker, you have a hospice aide. Croix offers advance care planning support, bereavement services and a North Star program for dementia symptom management. Now there is a care team that is expected, and its not just one person whos going to be coming in and out.

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

Hospice News

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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Three Things to Expect When Heading Home for Hospice Care

Traditions Health

The POC includes information about needed medications, services, medical supplies, and equipment, and outlines a schedule of visits from the doctor, nurse, medical social worker, home health aide, chaplain, and volunteers. As a guide for care, the POC is regularly reviewed and can be adjusted at any time.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.