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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

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A dire need exists to be able to better support physicians, hospital discharge planners and social workers on culturally relevant approaches to care at home and having end-of-life conversations with minority families and patients. You cant just pick up a model of care and drop it into a different city or region.

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Hospice & Palliative Care of Wood River Valley Works to Reach Underserved Latino Populations

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In the past year, the organization has grown its interdisciplinary team with the addition of a new social worker and three registered nurses, Wood River indicated in a recent newsletter. In the last year, Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley indicated that it had restarted its grief program for children ages 6 to 12.

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End-of-Life Doulas’ Growing Value Proposition in Hospice

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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.” Curd is also a licensed clinical social worker, and serves as a therapist at Red Wheelbarrow Counseling LLC and BetterHelp.

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Key Research Trends: Long Hospice Stays, Palliative Care Save Medicare Dollars

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This study confirms that hospice care adds value to patients, family members, and caregivers by increasing satisfaction and quality of life, improving pain control, and reducing both physical and emotional distress in patients and prolonged grief and other emotional distress in their family and caregivers,” NHPCO indicated.

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Psychedelics, Cannabis Show Promise in End-of-Life Care, But More Research Needed on the Risks

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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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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News. These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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St. Francis Reflections Lifestage Care Launches New Florida Inpatient Hospice Center

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Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. A team of St. Formerly Hospice of St. and 59.2%, respectively. billion.

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