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Blue Ridge Hospice Brings Services Under New Unified Brand

Hospice News

This change reflects our growth into a comprehensive, person-centered health care system designed to support individuals and families through every stage of aging, serious illness and grief. Last November Blue Ridge Care unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care.

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When Nurses Are Caught Between Hospital Policy and Frustrated Family Members

AJN Off the Charts

When I said we had to go through the social worker to get an exception to the visitor policy, she called me “rule-bound,” at which point her husband stood and rushed forward until he was towering over me. The emotional hangover A difficult professional interaction can trigger or exacerbate other personal struggles.

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Inside AccentCare’s New, Centralized Approach to Bereavement Care  

Hospice News

This centralization was designed to ensure consistency in its grief care operations and to ensure comparable quality across the company’s national footprint, Yelena Zatulovsky, vice-president of patient experience for AccentCare, said at the Home Care 100 Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And I think that was partly. She put her back out.

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Preventing Burnout Among Palliative Care Employees

Hospice News

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. Houston Hospice also launched a mental wellness program in February as a free benefit for employees and their families to access.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Those who elect Hospice care are no longer seeking curative treatment, and do not wish to go to endless appointments. Instead they choose to receive compassionate care in their own home. Whether home is a private residence, a long term facility, a personal care home etc, the Hospice team travels to the patient.

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Why You Should Start Hospice Sooner Than Later

Hope Hospice

But the decision is also empowering, because an array of supportive care and assistance becomes available to both the patient and family. Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Home health aides for personal care. Grief support. Accepting Grief.

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