Hospice News
MARCH 13, 2025
Hospice nurse, death doula and educator Suzanne OBrien is also seeking to change the conversation about death and end-of-life care. OBrien is the founder of the Doulagivers Institute, which provides education to families facing the end of life and trains professional death doulas.
Hospice News
MARCH 10, 2025
Calvary Hospitals newly appointed president Michael Fosina is embarking on a deeper journey to improve quality and access to hospice care amid rising demand. Research and workforce growth will play large roles in the future of palliative and end-of-life care delivery, according to Fosina. Some people struggle with that.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 23, 2025
For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. When we find the right combination of the right person to fit with Stillwater culture and who believes in end-of-life care, thats gold. No other hospice care provider is offering vehicles where we are.
GeriPal
JANUARY 20, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).
Hospice News
MARCH 27, 2024
Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said. They were at best insufficiently supportive and at worst partially obstructive to provision of hospice care in disasters.”
Hospice News
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Winegarner came into the field in 1976, making her one of the longest serving hospice nurses in the country. Her work in end-of-life care began seven years before the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established at the organization that eventually became By the Bay Health, which at the time was licensed as a home health agency.
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