Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. Fetzer was previously associate medical director at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, now part of the AMITA Health system. He’ll continue to serve as CMO of both organizations.

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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

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. Monday, September 16 was the first full day of the main conference.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Other providers in the group include Kalos Health, Liberty Home Care, Hospice of Orleans and The Niagara Hospice Alliance. “It Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 21, 2022

Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who were present. Most recently you have become a member of our Rainbows grief program. appeared first on High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care. Each year we choose two of our Volunteers to Honor with the title of Volunteer of the Year. The post We Appreciate our Volunteers!

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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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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Magical moments like these are possible because our community of donors, businesses, and volunteers understands that, in hospice and palliative care, every moment matters. How can you honor life during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month?

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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. Their website provides a wealth of information and resources for caregivers, and they offer support groups that focus on the unique challenges that FTD presents.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. The tree cast a warm glow as gifts were exchanged and the family opened the presents Rob requested we find for them. How can you honor life during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month? Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Later, Dominique even spent time visiting with the staff working at the Compassionate Care Center. How can you honor life during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month? Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Hospice care workers understand the unique challenges that ALS presents, and they can help keep your loved one feeling comfortable and as pain-free as possible without them having to verbally communicate how they are feeling and their needs. funeral arrangements, grief counseling, etc.).

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. How can you honor life during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month? Visit the #WeHonorLife campaign page to learn about all the ways you can help, from volunteering and shopping to helping us increase access to specialized care for the seriously ill and their families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

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 community-based nonprofit provides hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support and veterans programs. A mounting volume of research backs this theory.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. has been caring for people with advanced illnesses for many years. I’m so thrilled to be able to start a video log exploring topics in palliative care and also hospice care.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. has been caring for people with advanced illnesses for many years. I’m so thrilled to be able to start a video log exploring topics in palliative care and also hospice care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? See if you can pick out the moment. Homelessness?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Ashpole has been an educator and communication consultant in hospice and palliative care since the 1980s. He previously served as a board member for the International Association of Hospice & Palliative Care (IAHPC), compiling its monthly Literature Search journal.

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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. One aim of launching the center is to improve care collaboration and access among African Americans in the community, according to Ward. “A

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This trend demonstrates that a general public awareness of hospice care exists, according to Phillip Ward, president and CEO of Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care. We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.”

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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 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. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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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 ). Who would/should be on that board?

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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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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 billion for patients in their last year of life, according to a joint report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Brianna is one of UCSF’s palliative care fellows who just completed her psychiatry residency. I was introduced to Bathe by another Bay Area palliative care, Alex. Briana, welcome.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care.

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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). It’s a very heavy burden of caregiving to then step out and start finding the resources that they need.”.

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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 am the one attending physician on HopeHealth’s inpatient pediatric palliative care team. At the time, their greatest need was inpatient adult palliative care, so I started doing that.

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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? Foundations for Psychological Thinking in Palliative Care: Frame and Formulation. The Meaning of Together: Exploring Transference and Countertransference in Palliative Care Settings.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. A palliative care social worker now at Colorado.

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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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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.” It’s about education and support in recognizing the role that trauma plays and adopting practices and policies in the world of hospice and palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

We’re going to be talking about driving and older adults, and also in the palliative care population. Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. It sounds a lot like palliative care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome Jane deLima Thomas, who was a co-fellow with me back in the day in palliative care. And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people. I was a director of our palliative care team.

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