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Hospices Leverage School-Based Partnerships to Strengthen Bereavement Care

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Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.

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Hunterdon Hospice’s Relaunches Trauma-Informed Bereavement Program

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New Jersey-based Hunterdon Hospice has relaunched its bereavement program aimed at supporting loved ones who have experienced a traumatic loss. The hospice provider temporarily halted the eight-week grief support program during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Set to restart on Aug.

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Inside AccentCare’s New, Centralized Approach to Bereavement Care  

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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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Phoenix Children’s Palliative Chief: Shift the Culture in Health Care

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Shaw’s large staff includes eight board-certified doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a social worker, a mental health therapist, a bereavement coordinator, a bereavement counselor, a psychologist, a nurse coordinator and a medical assistant. And that’s really palliative care.”

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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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Hospice & Palliative Care of Wood River Valley Works to Reach Underserved Latino Populations

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Right now, all of our bereavement support groups are in English only,” Wild told local news. ““We In the past year, the organization has grown its interdisciplinary team with the addition of a new social worker and three registered nurses, Wood River indicated in a recent newsletter. We are working with St. Census Bureau.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

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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.

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