Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Established nearly 50 years ago, Rhode Island-based HopeHealth provides hospice, palliative care, and dementia and grief support services in Massachusetts and in its home state. The nonprofit has narrowed the focus of its retention initiatives toward reducing staff turnover.

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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. Hathaway’s challenges inspired the launch of PALS’ after-loss services in 2021.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

Training staff and volunteers to provide developmentally-appropriate grief support is among the key parts of operating summer camp programs for children and adolescents suffering a recent loss. Majority of the children who attend the grief program have lost a parent or guardian due to a chronic illness, according to Drescher.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. Establishing a National Grief Strategy will help people move forward with the help of skilled professionals creating a culture of awareness and support. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The health system retains ownership of HHCAH, with Pennant providing financial support services, human resources advising, information technology and other management consulting services. The nonprofit offers hospice, home health, grief support and childrens services. The move marked Pennants entry in the New England rRegion.

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Grief Healing Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

. ~ Fred Rogers A reader writes: I am a sophomore in high school and I am doing a big project on Grief and how to deal with it for my class in health.I was looking on the Internet and I came across your Grief Healing website. I really like it and all the information in it. I would really like to interview you if that is OK.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2024

The nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider offers grief care to its entire community regardless of whether a family member was one of their patients. Another example is a long-term community that had lost a longtime resident asked for our counselors to come out and provide a grief support program.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. You just email them or email them information on prepare for your care. From just the abstracts we had so many questions. So their caregivers did focus groups.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Clearwater, Florida-based Empath Health offers hospice, home health care, palliative care, grief services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), adult day services, primary care services and more. Ultimately, its all the way across the organization, representing all levels to really listen to the needs of the front line.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated. Fraud can contribute to complicated grief Program integrity issues have heated up in the hospice industry, particularly in four hotbed states of Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. Was informed consent given?

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Whereas the probate data was based on information from early 2022. In 2019, the state enacted a palliative care law, aimed at identifying patients who could benefit from these services and making information more readily available to them.”. For deaths at home, for example, the report included numbers from 2018 to 2021.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“Navigating grief and finding support can be complicated and isolating. We are planning to expand Missing Pieces to address broader grief needs for more families.” HAP Foundation includes a Pediatric Palliative Care program, involving a network of providers that also offers bereavement care services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its] thinking of how the next generation of employees, family caregivers and volunteers receive and process information. How do we need to change what were doing now to make sure were reaching them in a way that they can digest information?

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Blue Ridge Hospice Welcomes New VP of IT Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice has named Mohamad Hamad as its new vice president of information technology. The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. He was also senior director of information at Hospice by the Sea. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community. It’s also an opportunity to advocate patient needs to hospice staff by sharing information learned during sessions. It’s a benefit that we give and try to work with providers on expanding.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

Grief is made harder by logistics and logistics are made harder by grief,” Gura told Hospice News. These tasks often require hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars, for which many families are unprepared.

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Solace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Our societal taboos about grief and death and our well-meaning but sometimes misplaced fears about exposing children to death can make it difficult for kids to find their way through their personal grief journeys. Grief looks like all kinds of things. But grief can also look like anger. That all informs your grief.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A key to advance care planning among pediatric populations is to discuss all the potential outcomes of a serious or terminal illness prognosis, according to Molly Mattocks, an end-of-life grief coach and hospice chaplain based in Indiana. That’s what’s needed to make informed decisions.” It’s horrible [and] a hard thing.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2024

Seriously ill patients often cope with an array of emotional and spiritual complexities as their health worsens, including processing complicated anticipatory grief, severe agitation, distress and depression, Caldwell said. Ketamine-assisted therapies can help to reduce or relieve these symptoms, she stated.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

They] can provide so much support from advance care planning to vigil assistance, and out in the community they can do early grief and bereavement support and can provide household support [and] respite caregiving.” Interest in doula collaborations and partnerships is growing among home health and hospice providers alike, Collins indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

“We have also been dismayed by the circulation of false reports and incomplete information that have only hurt Alive, its staff and the people they serve.” The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support.

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Elaine Mansfield

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Brilliant and beautiful, Elaine Mansfield’s essay, “Wild Nights: Grief Dreams, Mythology, and the Inner Marriage,” delves into the depths of sorrow through the lens of dreams, mythology and poetry. My essay “Wild Nights: Grief Dreams, Mythology, and the Inner Marriage” had all the ingredients for the competition: C.G.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

JUNE 7, 2023

A group of dedicated care professionals in Boise, Idaho, who believe that seniors and their families deserve and need access to free, quality information provided by industry experts in their community to support their aging and caregiving questions and needs. Register to join us on June 14 at 7 p.m.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Compassus uses its clinical assessment not just to capture a patient’s health information but also to inform their goals, hopes and fears. “In That is the thing that gives them the most anxiety and grief.” In one patient’s case, her greatest concern was making sure that her dog was cared for after she died,” Hale says.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2024

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has also been found to help address grief for families coping with recent loss. A separate study found that only 5% of people using psychedelics viewed their health care providers as an information source.

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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. In some cases, multiple hospices are operating out of the same address.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Dubbed the Life Transitions Project, more than 50% of respondents reported having no knowledge that palliative care, hospice and related grief services exist, according to a YoloCares report. And once the care is received, providers have no cultural awareness or lack the sensitivity to adhere to their traditional customs or beliefs.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Digging into the data around abuse can help hospices understand how to recognize signs of trauma occurring in patients and staff and inform their approaches to training and support, he indicated. Balu Natarajan, chief medical officer of AccentCare.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The venture’s financial details are scarce, but more information will likely surface with publicly traded Genworth’s third-quarter earnings report in the coming weeks. “And not just providers, but also those dealing with transportation, with food delivery and nutrition, with loneliness and isolation, with grief counseling, etc.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That year, Roa took the helm at Avow Hospice, overseeing the growth of its palliative and hospice programs, along with its pediatric grief and veterans programs. Education is key to ensuring compliance, along with fostering an organizational culture of approachability and information sharing, she stated.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

(Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its affiliate group, the Hospice Action Network (HAN) applaud today’s introduction of the Grief Resilience Investment and Education Fund (GRIEF) Act in the House of Representatives by Congressman Joe Morelle (NY-25). Press Contact: . Madison Summers .

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

We created a small group of people with like-minded interests and had informational Zoom calls. Not to ask for money, but just to let them know how we were responding to the pandemic because they wanted information. In some instances, outreach that was specifically intended for fundraising nevertheless yielded donations. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

But providers can also benefit from considering data that comes from outside their organizations to identify prevailing trends, inform their marketing efforts and guide their decision making. The data will inform continuing discussions of the disconnect between the ways providers perceive hospice lengths of stay and the views of regulators.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Caregivers need practical support and guidance for their experience of taking care of this person, and for their emotional, anticipatory grief they’re feeling. A number of states have also established and funded caregiver counseling programs, disseminated information and added some additional services to their Medicaid coverage.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

There’s opportunity to continue to advocate for regulatory change around that program in some of the [requests for information (RFIs)], so that’s something to watch out for as well. When CMS is looking at things, it’s a need to synthesize all that information under their belt.

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