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The High-Impact Role of Hospice Aides

Traditions Health

Some consider hospice aides, who make it their life’s work to care for people who are dying, a rare breed. Yet most hospice aides will tell you it’s a calling — one they’re honored to answer. In most cases, hospice aides visit patients once to a few times a week, ensuring all their needs are met.

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Los Angeles Hospice Home Care Launches Scholarship Program for Aides

Hospice News

Los Angeles-based Hospice Home Care recently rolled out a scholarship program for hospice aides in a move towards building career pathways and improving retention. Los Angeles County needs to hear the voices of those who provide Los Angeles hospice care to the residents of this county as they near the end of life.”

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Wages Rising for Hospice Workers; Aides See 9.09% Increase

Hospice News

Wages for hospice aides and CNAs are rising faster than those for other interdisciplinary team members as providers seek to stem rampant turnover among those employees. Medical social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly increase, but in terms of productivity tended to have larger caseloads, with a national average of 29.15

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CareAcademy Launches Hospice Curriculum

Hospice News

The online clinical training platform CareAcademy has developed a hospice care curriculum. The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians.

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Hospice Promise Provides Individualized Care

Hospice Promise

Hospice Promise provides an individualized program of physical, emotional, and spiritual care for people in the last phases of a life-limiting illness. We utilize an interdisciplinary approach of physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice aides, volunteers, and spiritual and bereavement counselors.

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Hospice of Cincinnati, Adventist Health Expand Hospice; Labor Pressures Shutter Midwest-Based Programs

Hospice News

Chippewa County Health Department to Shutter Hospice Services Michigan-based Chippewa County Health Department recently announced that it will be sunsetting its home health and hospice services at the end of 2024. The county hospice agency cited rising staffing costs and reimbursement pressures as leading reasons.

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Amedisys Makes Executive Moves, Bristol Hospice Names New CFO

Hospice News

The hospice also brought on Carolyn Wesoloski as a registered nurse and Catherine Whinery as an infection control and prevention nurse. It also welcomed a new hospice aide, Meagan York. Recent hires also include nurse case managers Caitlin Cunningham and Annette Drouin.

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