Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. The theme speaks directly to the hospice’s efforts around health equity, according to Cabot.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. Their conversations delve into the experience of losing a loved one and the different ways survivors can process their grief.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. It will serve as a hospice and palliative care “education and training hub” for patients, families, providers, and other stakeholders, according to the HAP Foundation. The HAP Foundation has officially begun operations.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care recently opened a new location in its home state that will serve as an office for interdisciplinary staff and a community center. Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care: COO Kenny Stevenson; Board Member Sen.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

Hospice programs in central New York remain open, despite local legislators previously indicating staffing-related closures. In 2022, legislators in Oswego County in New York state voted to shutter its hospice services within the year. The post Hospice Programs Slated for Closure Remain Open appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. I’m a pediatrician.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Rising regulatory scrutiny around length of stay may be having adverse impacts on health care costs and quality, hospice leaders said in a recent Congressional briefing. Longer stays yield greater savings Regulators have fixed their gaze on longer hospice stays as signals of potential fraud, waste and abuse. Additionally, the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nationwide, existing support and services are often scarce or insufficient to meet families’ needs, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Contributing to this is lack of public awareness and understanding around hospice and palliative care services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Having a greater understanding around the impacts of trauma and abuse can help hospices improve end-of-life experiences for patients and working conditions for staff. That’s a fundamental place to begin,” Natarajan told Hospice News. The first, most important thing is just creating an atmosphere of empathy and psychological safety.

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

I love to think of grief as a normal, healthy, whole person response by which we adapt to life without the person/loved one, physically present. Years ago, Freud taught that grief should have an end, and that end included, a severed connection with the deceased. I’m grateful we have moved from this perspective!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). Eric 00:42 Great. Eric 11:52 Yeah.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And love that Jim Croce choice. Whats in a name? Ive got a name.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 8, 2024

Supporting someone with a life-limiting diagnosis or talking about death can be difficult for many people, but not for a hospice nurse. Maryette Williamson, RN, BSN, knows firsthand from working as a BAYADA Hospice Nurse in Fayetteville, North Carolina. How did you get interested in working as a home hospice nurse?

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Hospice of the North Coast

MARCH 1, 2022

It wasn’t the profanity nor the frontal attack on the care her father has been receiving but the intensity of it, the felt urgency, the palpable shock of the grief just underneath it all. She started to suffer and although her dad was still around, unknowingly she became immersed in anticipatory grief. Daniel Miller, M.D.,

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Hope Hospice

MARCH 8, 2019

Young people experience physical, emotional and spiritual reactions to grief and grieve differently than adults. Hope Hospice now offers a Children and Teen Grief Support program to help address these issues. The grief support groups meet in the evenings, twice a month during the school year.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Be present. And if they don’t want to talk, simply being present can be a comfort. Entering Into Hospice. As your loved one enters hospice care, you may find yourself feeling lost and alone. Hospice can be a difficult time for both patients and their families. Hospice Caregivers Support Group.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Grief comes to us when someone or something significant dies. Our culture recognizes the death of a person as a cause of grief. There are other sources of debilitating grief, too; the death of a job, pet, relationship, status, income, health, certain freedoms, and on and on. Don’t try to take the gift of grief away from them.

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 30, 2021

Follow along to learn more about parental grief and a few methods to deal with the loss of a child. Stages of Grief After Losing a Child: Why Parental Grief Is Different. Parental grief is unlike grieving for others that are your age or older. Physical and Mental Effects of Parental Grief.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness. Patients value stability; caregivers can foster this by maintaining regular routines and being present for important milestones.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Award presentations began on Sunday, September 15 with the NHPCO Founders Awards , honoring exceptional individuals whose pioneering vision, leadership, and innovative spirit have significantly contributed to the advancement and success of the hospice and palliative care community.

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. The study was funded by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). With hospice, you can provide that care at home.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

And I gotta say, like, I’ve been doing hospice and palliative care for nearly two decades. But I must say that grief has a way of coming round and round and round again. Eric 07:41 You know, another thing I found very interesting, having written papers about grief and thought a lot about it, but agree that there’s.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2024 Photo Link (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) hosted its annual leadership conference (ALC2024) in Denver, Colorado September 14–18, 2024. The day concluded with the National Hospice Foundation 2024 Gala.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Revisiting this complex topic for a third time, Mitch Ware takes a deeper look into the seven stages of grief and explores how we cycle through them. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. I am a longtime hospice client and volunteer, I know hospice inside and out. My name is Mitch Ware.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 21, 2022

Our volunteers, some of whom are pictured above, are an exceptional group of caring and compassionate people who each bring a rich variety of life skills and interest to our hospice service. Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who were present. Most recently you have become a member of our Rainbows grief program.

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

For Immediate Release April 17, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would update key components of hospice reimbursement and regulations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 21, 2023

The journey through hospice care is often emotional and challenging, not just for the patient, but also for their loved ones. These platforms can help equip caregivers with the knowledge and skills they need to better care for their loved ones in hospice. Mental Health Support Maintaining mental health is crucial for caregivers.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Using children’s hospices as gate keepers (to ensure support for the parents), eight parents were interviewed in seven interviews (one interview involved both parents), about eight children (one mother spoke about the deaths of two of her children).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Across years of conducting mixed-methods research to explore the role of spirituality among people with cancer, I am constantly presented with ways where our connection to spirit is challenged, and ways that we can remain connected amidst the very real pain, challenge, busyness, stress, and burnout of this modern world.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. 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.

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Hospice of the North Coast

APRIL 15, 2021

What does grief look like? Thus, is the gift of art and grief work. Here are some of the things that can be gained in an art-based grief group: Making art in a group setting creates a sense of ritual that provides safety and promotes emotional risk-taking. Grief Support Groups. What color is it? Moon, 2016, pp 8-9).

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

As a hospice nurse, a challenging and unavoidable aspect of your role is navigating end-of-life conversations. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses. I like to ask the patient and family if it’s ok to speak openly with everyone present.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This review discusses when hospice care for ALS is recommended and when a patient with ALS is eligible for hospice. When Is An ALS Patient Eligible For Hospice Care? The following is an overview of what signs indicate a patient with ALS is ready and eligible for hospice care. What Are The Goals Of Hospice Care for ALS?

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Traditions Health

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The frequency and severity of symptoms often vary, making it difficult at times to determine life expectancy and the need for hospice care. This means that many patients may miss out on the vital physical and emotional support that hospice provides. What Does Hospice Do for Heart Disease Patients?

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