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.” Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula.

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JUNE 9, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. The organization will remain a nonprofit hospice, they indicated. Founded in 1975, Alive Hospice provides care to nearly 5,000 patients annually across 12 counties in central Tennessee.

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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

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.

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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. Hospice and palliative care providers] can prepare to care for these communities by increases in diverse hiring practices.”

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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. Reduced fundraising dollars brought on by the pandemic has led to a considerable drop in revenue for some organizations.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative, grief support and advance care planning services. Because they have not been adequately informed about hospice and palliative care, they go to their spiritual advisor or religious guide. Is the director of faith outreach a newly developed role at AMOREM, or an existing position?

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

The collaborative provides a shared pool of services such as accounting, payroll, revenue cycle and treasury management, information technology (IT), human resources, compliance, education, and marketing and communications. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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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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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’s New CIO Tim Hines has been tapped as the new chief information officer of Hospice Source LLC, a durable medical equipment (DME) company based in Texas.

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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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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. This puts us at a distinct disadvantage in the current environment where some members of our community, who are well aware of the restrictions on our ability to speak, use the absence of information to fashion their own version of events.”

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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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HPNA podcast

MAY 1, 2025

Helen speaks candidly about the emotional toll of the work, the cumulative grief nurses carry, and the resilience it takes to keep showing up not just for patients, but for ourselves. She is currently the Operations Director for Palliative Medicine at Baptist Health Systems in Memphis, TN. She is honored to be the HPNA 2025 podcast host.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

The hospice and palliative provider also offers grief support and services to help address patients’ unmet pet needs. Montgomery Hospice & Prince George’s Hospice other services include grief support and spiritual counseling, veteran services and pediatric hospice care. She will step into the role this June. Croix Health.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The immense experiences of suffering, grief, loneliness, and burnout among nurses today call for a reexamination not only of our care delivery systems, but also of the personal frameworks through which we approach our nursing practice. What is spiritual care? Palliative nursing and ‘a deep examination of priorities.’

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palliative care also enables patients and their families to make informed decisions about end-of-life care. 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. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative? What Makes This A Compassionate Option?

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

In this proposed rule, CMS announced it is soliciting feedback from providers via two Requests for Information (RFIs) – one on health equity in hospice and the other on hospice utilization, non-hospice spending, ownership, and hospice election. No other area of healthcare delivers such high value for patients and for Medicare.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 21, 2023

One such resource is the Family Caregiver Alliance , which offers a wealth of information on care strategies, stress management, and legal issues related to caregiving. The American Cancer Society offers online support groups where caregivers can exchange information, advice, and encouragement.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

Hospices may be seeing a growing need for trauma-informed bereavement services on the horizon. Shaping their grief support programs with this trend in mind will be pivotal to hospices ability to expand the depth and reach of their services. The need for trauma-informed grief approaches will not abate anytime soon, she indicated.

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Palliverse

JULY 20, 2022

Express the grief, and get over the loss, with your teammates. Informal debriefing with colleagues can be a good thing to do. Acknowledging the human feelings we all have felt dealing with the case. Some cases are tragic and sadness to some extent is unavoidable. Talking through difficult cases with each other can be helpful.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Mission Hospice, By the Bay Health, and Hope Hospice share a rich history and commitment to serving the Bay Area community with comprehensive end-of-life care, education, and grief support,” said Mission Hospice CEO Dolores Miller, RN, MN. More information is available at bythebayhealth.org. LARKSPUR, SAN MATEO, DUBLIN, Calif.,

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Healthcare professionals must uphold strict confidentiality standards to protect sensitive information. Healthcare providers should encourage open communication with families, ensuring they are well informed about the patient’s condition, treatment options, and end-of-life decisions.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The hospice provider temporarily halted the eight-week grief support program during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Having a program that focuses on traumatic loss helps create safe spaces for individuals to navigate a complex range of grief emotions, Suozzo indicated. Set to restart on Aug.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Grief counseling for patient and family. The National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health, provides valuable information on the subject of hospice care. Medical equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, or hospital beds. Medical supplies like bandages and catheters. Social worker services.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Summary Transcript CME Summary I was very proud to use the word apotheosis on todays podcast. See if you can pick out the moment. I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Homelessness?

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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. A growing body of research is uncovering the potential benefits of ketamine therapies to help with symptom management.

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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

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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” McKinnis also has a private therapy practice and previously served as the director of patient and family support and grief services for the North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2025

Armed with this information, patients have a window into what would constitute as a safe, appropriate care setting alongside the probable trajectory of their illness, he stated. Advanced care planning empowers patients to consider their wishes and needs even sooner.

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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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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. 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. So their caregivers did focus groups.

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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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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. They’re going to carry that.”

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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? We cannot let off the pedal on that awareness, its constant.

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