Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Research is growing around how certain substances such as psychedelics and cannabis can aid in treating pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, migraines and other medical conditions. Medical cannabis can also be beneficial in symptom management for cancer patients, according to recent research.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Littlefield was previously Riverside Health System’s executive vice president and chief nursing officer. The funding follows a $6.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Guaranteed’s technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. When a loved one comes to the end of their life and enters hospice, the emotion, grief and responsibilities can be very overwhelming.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I think the last area that’s been important to us to recruit outside of our physicians, and our nurse practitioners have been in our palliative medicine area and our primary care practice. I have people who say, “I love that model, but I don’t want a chaplain, I just want a nurse and a social worker.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Established in 1977, Hospice of Cincinnati provides hospice, palliative care, grief support and advanced care planning educational services. “We The health system operates two hospitals, five ambulatory outpatient centers and dozens of medical offices. Staff of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators will provide hospice care at the center.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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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. Brubaker Miller is a licensed clinical social worker and brings more than 25 years of experience in the hospice industry. The nonprofit is a subsidiary of Western Wisconsin Health and St. Croix Health.

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HPNA podcast

APRIL 13, 2020

In this special edition of HPNA's Podcast Corner, we address moral distress and complicated grief during the COVID-19 crisis. Our guest is Kathie Supiano, PhD, LCSW, F-GSA, FT, APHSW-C, a clinical social worker and an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Coordination Palliative care often involves multiple professionals, from doctors to therapists to social workers. This ongoing communication helps align everyones expectations, creating a solid framework for care. Proactive organization reduces potential conflicts and miscommunications, providing streamlined care for the individual.

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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. Is starting a Hospice agency right for you?

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies.

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, inpatient hospice facilities, hospitals, and some nursing homes also provide services. 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.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

All hospices provide some form of bereavement care after a patient dies, but many families need help with anticipatory grief as well. What is anticipatory grief? It’s the feelings of loss, grief and anxiety that happened before death when you know there’s a death coming. Our nursing staff does the medical symptoms.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Through the new organization’s integrated, trans-disciplinary team-based approach to health care, patients and families will have comprehensive access to a clinically trained, compassionate team including physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual support and bereavement counselors, home health aides, and physical and occupational therapists.

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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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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Medicare will cover: Medical and nursing services. Social worker services. Grief counseling for patient and family. While hospice care often takes place at home, it can also be provided in inpatient facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes. . Medical equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, or hospital beds.

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Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

North Carolina-based Hospice of Davidson County (HODC) will soon unveil a summer grief camp for bereaved children and teens. Dubbed Camp Comfort, the new grief program launches this Thursday for children in 1st through 5th grade. It’s a setting with a sole purpose of learning about grief and the support resources available to them.”

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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 6, 2024

Prince is also a licensed clinical social worker and an adjunct professor at the State University of New York Brockport. Some of them want to be doctors, nurses or other medical professions, some had a loved one die and others just want to understand death better.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

AMOREM provides comfort and understanding in ensuring that their compassionate and incredibly skilled nurses are there to support patients and families. The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. AMOREM also has an advanced cardiac care program.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Sue Britton was the first nurse hired on that palliative care unit. Alex 01:08 And we’re delighted to welcome Sue Britton, who was the first nurse in the very first palliative care unit in Quebec at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1975. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her.

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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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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

It] can be stressful when nurses are torn between the needs of pediatric and adult patients,” Harold told Hospice News in an email. Burnout may be exacerbated when nurses feel they can’t meet all of the expectations of patients and caregivers.”.

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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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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

JANUARY 11, 2025

You’ll become a Caregiving or Grief Facilitator. Become a Caregiving or Grief Facilitator Our Certified Caregiving Facilitator training program provides you with the skills and tools you need to effectively lead a support group meeting for family caregivers and former family caregivers. Her father died in July 2023.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

When you’re looking to build this service you have to have enough people to choose from, and we are really struggling right now in the nursing workforce, social workers, and other support staff – especially since the pandemic hit,” Wodatch told Hospice News. 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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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

[link] Toronto Star Feature [link] CityNews Toronto Feature [link] Psychosocial Interventions at PEACH In addition to medical care, PEACH also runs two key psychosocial interventions for our clients: PEACH Grief Circles Structured spaces for workers in the homelessness sector to process grief. We just hired a nurse.

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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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be. Or an inpatient nurse and make her a floater.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. The nurse is going to be here and help make you feel a whole lot better.” What we should know is that it means less nurses, less CNAs, less younger staff to be able to take care of our patients. There were fewer children born at that time.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient. 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

JULY 22, 2022

In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community. Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. Carroll and Merelli founded Deathwives in 2019 to assist families facing the death of a loved one.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

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. Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. Somebody asked the question. I had one ready.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We have about 100 skilled nursing facility-type beds for people who need assistance with their activities of daily living, who maybe have significant cognitive impairment and needs support. I wonder… And when we were talking earlier, you gave us a wonderful tour when we were in the skilled nursing facility. There are clinics.

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