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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

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During the time that Chinn’s family was receiving care at Suncoast, the hospice was also caring for Terry Schiavo, whose story captivated much of the nation in 2005. The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

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WHPCA was then formed, and one of the first things we did was set a day aside for global recognition, because most of every major issue in health care worldwide centered around what was happening in the last years of life.”. These types of services are often under-reimbursed or not covered at all by payers.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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“We are typically attempting to overcome preconceived impressions that often associate hospice with brink-of-death care, rather than an understanding of the comprehensive services available to both the patients and families as the disease is advancing over the final several months,” Ward told Hospice News in an email. “We

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‘Normalizing’ Trauma-Informed Hospice Care Delivery

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Trauma-informed care challenges Recognition of the training gaps in trauma-informed end-of-life care delivery drove NPHI to establish a guide for providers, CEO Tom Koutsoumpas stated. These families may be at higher risk of experiencing complicated grief, she said.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. We have chaplains, hospice aides, social work support and a robust grief support program of counselors that specialize in the loss of a child.

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Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

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Representatives from NHPCO, NAHC, NORC, along with hospice providers VITAS Healthcare and Delaware Hospice, presented the data during the briefing. Additionally, the research found that quality of life for family members during the last year of a patient’s life was also higher in hospice than without.

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Changing Hospice Conversation Key to Improving Caregiver Support

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California-based Mettle Health is a palliative care company providing support to seriously ill patients and their caregivers, including counseling on their health care decisions and resources. ACL has spearheaded early steps to ramp up federal and state assistance for family caregivers.

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