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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

Hospice News

A dire need exists to be able to better support physicians, hospital discharge planners and social workers on culturally relevant approaches to care at home and having end-of-life conversations with minority families and patients. They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present.

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Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children

Hospice News

Common threads among children grief programs Youth summer grief camps often integrate bereavement counseling and therapeutic elements into their programs. The Michigan-based hospice provider launched its summer grief program three years ago for bereaved children 5–18 years old across communities in its service region.

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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%.

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Breaking Down Costs, ROIs of Hospice-Death Doula Partnerships

Hospice News

Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago. Costs involved in a hospice-doula partnership Goodwin Hospice has a service agreement with Present for You that includes “on demand access” to EOLDs when a patient and family need arises, Klint explained.

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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. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.

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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. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses. Maybe by dealing with that with a social worker, you’re lowering anxiety.

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Counseling Awareness Month

AT Home Care & Hospice

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. Three of these services in particular include social work, bereavement, and chaplain services. In that high-risk category fall senior citizens.