Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. Edwards previously served as a fund development specialist at the Blue Ridge HealthCare Foundation. Established in 1981, the community-based nonprofit hospice serves eight counties in Virginia.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Limes previously served as vice president of business development and community relations at BridgePoint Healthcare. He held similar positions at NMS Healthcare and at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, now a part of AccentCare. Posega in the last 35 years has held various leadership, consulting and clinical roles.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. The palliative care workforce is facing a wide range of challenges that impact their ability to thrive in the field.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

The quality of care provided (or complete lack thereof) has been so egregiously poor that patients have suffered at the end of their lives, leaving a wake of complicated grief experiences among their families. Fraud, waste and abuse exist in several different industries and health care is no exception. Additionally, the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Established in 1981, Blue Ridge offers hospice, palliative care and community grief support services. These include the launch of a new community grief center, continued PACE service development and “rapid expansion” in Virginia due to rising demand, Kennedy stated.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Caregivers need to facilitate dialogue between loved ones, families, and healthcare providers. Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It addresses physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Compassion Compassion lies at the heart of palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

VITAS Launches New Florida Location VITAS Healthcare has opened a new location in Florida, expanding the hospice provider’s footprint in its home state. The Chemed Corp (NYSE: Chem) subsidiary recently announced the new office’s opening, located in Wesley Chapel, Florida. of the county’s overall population, the U.S. Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include home- and facility-based hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. She has also held various executive and leadership roles at health organizations such as Premise Health, Healthways, CHD Meridian Healthcare and Turnkey Business Solutions, among others.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Chemed Corporation (NYSE: CHEM) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare recently named Laury Bliss as its new vice president of operations in southern California. In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. Former VITAS Manager Returns to Fill Operational VP Role. NHPCO Appoints New Finance VP.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support. Hospice Source has been on a growth trajectory in recent years, picking up Respiratory Therapy Home Care in 2021 and acquiring DME company Superior Healthcare, Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Legacy brands NorthShore University HealthSystem, Edward-Elmhurst Health, Northwest Community Healthcare and Swedish Hospital have recently unified under the Endeavor Health umbrella. Providers across the continuum have felt the impact of workforce and economic strains in recent years.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Established in 1977, Hospice of Cincinnati provides hospice, palliative care, grief support and advanced care planning educational services. “We These include Residential Healthcare Group, among others. The health system operates two hospitals, five ambulatory outpatient centers and dozens of medical offices.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition to hospice, Ohio’s Hospice offers advance care planning services, along with caregiver, grief support and veterans programs. It also operates a palliative care arm, Pure Healthcare. In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Healthcare Architect Awards were also presented at the Gala, recognizing individuals who have significantly impacted the delivery and accessibility of hospice and palliative care. The Alliance brings together two organizations with nearly 90 years of combined experience: NAHC and NHPCO.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The hospice [Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)] surveys are part of the measures under consideration as well. CMS) is looking at those publicly reported quality measures as part of the Special Focus Program, and those are going to be one of the key reasons a hospice ends up in that program.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Eric: It really reminds me, we just did a couple podcasts on grief and part of grief is that where there’s often a movement towards acceptance, you never go back to who you were. Alex: Great.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Sunday concluded with the Kickoff Keynote, Joseph Stern, MD, author of Grief Connects Us: A Neurosurgeon’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion. Attendees joined the Opening Keynote, Daniel Kraft, MD, healthcare futurist, innovator, physician, and scientist. Monday, September 16 was the first full day of the main conference.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

Additionally, she helped build an endowment fund that supports the hospice’s community grief services and integrative therapies programs, along with providing direct patient assistance. She succeeds Cassie Mitchell, who left the organization to become CEO of Colorado-based HopeWest Hospice. Hospice Maui appoints new CEO .

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What Is Palliative Care? When having a loved one that is dealing with a terminal disease, you may come across the option of Palliative care. Palliative care is a type of medical treatment that helps to improve the quality of life for people living with serious illnesses. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative? What Makes This A Compassionate Option?

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

The benefits for patients, family members, and caregivers include increased satisfaction and quality of life, improved pain control, reduced physical and emotional distress, and reduced prolonged grief and other emotional distress. No other area of healthcare delivers such high value for patients and for Medicare.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 21, 2023

Similarly, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization provides a section dedicated to caregivers that contains useful resources about hospice care, managing symptoms, and dealing with grief. Remember, it’s okay to ask for help. You don’t have to handle everything on your own.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Healthcare providers should engage in open and honest discussions, ensuring that patients’ wishes and choices are respected to the greatest extent possible. Healthcare professionals must uphold strict confidentiality standards to protect sensitive information.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Understanding Occupational Therapy Occupational therapy (OT) is a holistic healthcare profession that focuses on helping individuals of all ages achieve and maintain their highest level of independence and well-being. OT professionals collaborate with other healthcare providers to ensure a coordinated approach to recovery.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care. by Kearney.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Summary Transcript CME Summary I was very proud to use the word apotheosis on todays podcast. See if you can pick out the moment. And I believe that to be true. Homelessness?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

We began offering palliative care, and strengthened our community grief counseling services, which we provide to anyone on the island in addition to individual bereavement support. Our grief counseling has flowed into crisis interventions in the community, at the school and the hospital for families with terrible losses in their family.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Bereaved families often face tremendous challenges fielding a barrage of tasks following a loved ones’ death, according to Grant Marylander, grief counselor at Trail Winds Hospice, which provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care. White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut’s statewide Palliative Care Advisory Council (PCAC) plans to work collaboratively with DPH to develop the pediatric hospice program plan, according to Tracy Wodatch, president and CEO of the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home. The plan would have to be completed by Jan. The plan would have to be completed by Jan.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And it’s supposedly also about his grief with the loss of his father after a long illness. Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Janet Ho, who is a palliative care doc and addiction medicine doc and associate professor at UCSF. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast. Janet 00:26 Thank you so much. S a ch, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. Social pain and loneliness. Raj: Thank you. Thank you, Eric.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

I think that gave me a unique perspective and helped nudge me into the healthcare field. Tosto: Most people dont experience grief until they have to, and usually the loss of a loved one on hospice services is their first experience with grief. My feelings on healthcare are general. HSPN: What drew you to this industry?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? Eric and I interviewed these presenters at the meeting on Thursday (before the pub crawl, thankfully). Who would/should be on that board? Yael 00:28 Hi, everyone. I’m Yael Schenker. Na 00:36 Hi, everyone. I’m Na Ouyang.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. Eric: So Susan, very big thank you for joining us on this podcast. We’ve got a lot to cover. But before we do, we always start off with song requests. Susan: I do.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Fear of regulatory attention, audits or post-payment reviews related to longer stays could drive some hospice providers to discharge patients who can still benefit from their services, according to Dr. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer for VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM). “In

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