End-of-life care Hospice volunteer Medicare 
Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care.
NHPCO
OCTOBER 6, 2023
“We must be courageous about opening windows to new ways of thinking about serious-illness and end-of-life care, new ways of providing that care, and new ways of resourcing the care in the decades ahead.” NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.
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NHPCO
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
I’m honored to be selected as one of HAN’s Angel Awardees again this year, and I am so grateful for the work HAN, NHPCO, and all the hospice and palliative caregivers do on behalf of people across West Virginia.” . I have long worked to advance bipartisan solutions that expand the public’s access to palliative and end-of-life care.
Hospice News
JANUARY 2, 2023
The number of hospice volunteers plunged during the first two years of the pandemic, and many are still working to rebuild their ranks. Many hospices saw volunteer volumes dip drastically as they suspended activities during the pandemic. Providers’ efforts to recruit volunteers could take on renewed urgency when the U.S.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
What’s the difference between end-of-life doula and a hospice volunteer? Beth: It depends on the volunteer. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. They’re not all end-of-life doulas. Even a hospice volunteer, there are downsides because now you got to train hospice volunteers.
GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility?
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks. Ann Merkel grew up in New Haven, Connecticut where the first hospice in the United States started in 1974. That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission.
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