CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains. Services such as end-of-life planning and bereavement support are integral, aiding families and caregivers in coping with grief and loss. The first step is to determine which healthcare licenses you need.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

Counseling in the Post-Acute Healthcare Setting In acute healthcare settings, such as an inpatient stay at the hospital, the quality care delivered to patients is facilitated by readily available resources such as multidisciplinary healthcare teams all operating out of one facility.

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Hope Hospice

MAY 15, 2020

Understanding Loss and Grief”. Grief doesn’t just occur with the loss of a loved one. In this brief session, learn about grief processes and some coping strategies in the era of COVID-19. Panelists: Kathleen Brand, LMFT, ATR, Hope Hospice Grief Support Center Director. Jennifer Hansen, Hope Hospice CEO.

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Your healthcare providers usually visit a few times a week. Social workers can address financial issues and access additional support services. Benefits for you, your caregiver, and your family include: Grief support: Bereavement counselors help you process emotions and face loss. What happens during hospice care?

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palliative care teams often include doctors, nurses, social workers as well as counselors who specialize in spiritual and emotional support. Palliative care teams are composed of doctors, nurses, social workers, and other professionals who provide round-the-clock care. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative?

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Seasons Hospice

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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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

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. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I saw a person who couldn’t access the social determinants of health.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. And I think that was partly. She put her back out.

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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. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging.

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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

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . The first center began providing grief support services in 1991 following her death. Hosparus Health opens new grief support facility.

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Traditions Health

MAY 19, 2025

When to consider hospice care Its important to talk with your loved one about their preferences, as well as their healthcare team about the best options for care. Emotional support : Counselors can help provide support to those experiencing depression, anxiety, grief, and other emotions.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Many of us, those of us who lead healthcare communities and organizations, are in trouble trying to make sure our patients have their needs met. We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. That is, we work in healthcare during the perfect storm. I know a lot of people are in bad places right now.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Abuse and trauma experiences impact those delivering and receiving hospice care in many ways, some evident and some less apparent, according to Carole Fisher, president, National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient.

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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. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. And at the top it says, “Pali-Jail.”

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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. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. We know that a department of healthcare cannot give it. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. Anne: Hi, guys.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. It’s now available.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. We have medical social workers who support the patients.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. I mean, in other work, hard work environments as well.

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

Spiritual support is provided by the Hospice chaplain and social workers are also available. Frequency of healthcare visits are determined by several factors such as patient diagnoses, symptoms, and response to treatments and medications. As the patient’s condition and symptoms change, the care evolves to meet the need.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I feel like, you know, even before the pandemic, certainly during the pandemic, we talk a lot about the grit and the resilience of healthcare and healthcare workers and, you know, the amazing drive that they have and the amazing ability that they have to connect with people. And Rachel Rush, who is a pediatric social.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. There were rules a little bit, because the healthcare system likes to have some level of consistency as people move in. When should I think of one?

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We don’t think of people as linearly going through the stages of grief anymore, but we understand that anger is an important piece of that for people. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. Alex: Yeah.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

An interdisciplinary team is assembled for each patient and it typically includes the attending physician, a Registered Nurse (RN) case manager, home health aide, social worker, and a chaplain. Additional support is provided to the patient and their families through the social worker. Physical Support.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 4, 2023

Social workers offer emotional support to both the child and family, helping them navigate through the challenging emotions accompanying the situation. They can guide families through their grief, helping them understand and validate their feelings of sadness, anger, or guilt.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

” [laughter] Alex: Poor ICU doctors, you’re getting a lot of grief today. The post Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. laughter] Don: We’re getting beat up.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A comprehensive care team comprised of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual professionals, and trained volunteers. A comprehensive care team comprised of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual professionals, and trained volunteers. Department of Defense.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Elizabeth Hart, MD Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The hospice care team comprises medical experts, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers who collectively address the needs of patients and their families. This team may include a family member, social worker, or friend taking on a daily role, with assistance from home healthcare aides as necessary.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. You interviewed some geriatricians. It is very active here. I don’t know.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

His second book, Letter to a Hospice Nurse , celebrates the lives of hospice patients and gives a format for surviving family and friends to process grief. The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing.

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Seasons Hospice

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hospice teams typically include physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual counselors, pharmacists, and other trained staff who specialize in managing pain and symptoms while offering emotional and spiritual support to both patient and family during the difficult time when a cure is no longer an option.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The hospice team may consist of an attending physician, an RN case manager, a home health aide, a chaplain, and a social worker. Social workers identify needs related to caregiver breakdown, knowledge deficits, crises that may arise, grief support, and spiritual care. It also provides grief support.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. You have healthcare providers telling stories about loss.

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