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3 Quality Keys Driving Hospice Staff, Family Caregiver Satisfaction

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Research has uncovered common threads of quality impacts among the largest hospices nationwide as providers employ a range of initiatives to uproot the underlying causes of staff and family caregiver dissatisfaction. If your staffing is insufficient, people are not going to get timely help,” Hotchkiss told Hospice News.

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Hospice Savannah Fuels Expansion of CAPABLE Program to Enable Aging in Place

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Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc. Relatively few CAPABLE programs exist in the Southeast, according to Kathleen Benton, president and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice Savannahs CAPABLE program is designed to help improve general safety, reduce falls and increase accessibility and improve functional abilities in the home.

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Regulators Extend Some Telemedicine Flexibilities, Gauge Telehealth’s ‘New Path Forward’ in Hospice

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The temporary telemedicine rules allowed hospices and other health care providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine such as ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, among other drugs. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Blue Ridge Hospice Brings Services Under New Unified Brand

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Blue Ridge Hospice is rebranding under the name Blue Ridge Care to signify its expanded mission and scope of services. This includes Blue Ridges hospice and palliative care programs, its Center for Hope & Healing bereavement center and its subsidiary Blue Ridge Independence at Home Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

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Blue Ridge Care Expands Bereavement Care with New Center for Hope & Healing

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Blue Ridge Care has unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care. The Virginia-based nonprofit hospice, palliative care and PACE provider financed the center through philanthropic donations. In one display, a collection of rocks symbolizes the weight of grief.

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2024’s Most Read Palliative Care News Stories

Hospice News

Clinical trial research in recent years has increasingly pointed to a range of benefits that patients have experienced with alternative therapy utilization Psychedelic- and cannabis-guided therapies have been found to alleviate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, grief symptoms, migraines, chronic pain and other medical conditions.

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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

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Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorships palliative medicine and supportive care clinical professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

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