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Hospice Nurse, Author Suzanne O’Brien on Engaging Families Earlier at End of Life

Hospice News

Hospice nurse, death doula and educator Suzanne OBrien seeks to change the conversation about death and end-of-life care, both nationally and among individual families. Hospice News sat down with OBrien to discuss the new book, as well as strategies hospices can use to connect with families earlier.

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VNS Health Expands Hospice Education for Underserved Asian Americans

Hospice News

VNS Health has developed community education programs to boost awareness and hospice utilization among Chinese populations in New York City. It’s important that you have staff who speak their own language and dialects, because even just in the Chinese language there are so many different dialects,” Lin told Hospice News. “We

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Advance Care Planning Seminar

Changing Lives Podcast

Learn about these terms, what they mean, and how to answer them in the seminar. Tuesday, April 16th from 1:00-2:00pm Virtual Session: Tuesday, April 16th from 6:00-7:00pm via Zoom The post Advance Care Planning Seminar appeared first on Hospice Quinte. Who acts as your Representative or Substitute Decision Maker?

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Care Dimensions CEO: New Hospice Clinicians Seek Mentorship

Hospice News

Hospice provider Care Dimensions has tapped Dr. Stephanie Patel as its new CEO, upon the retirement of previous top executive Patricia Ahern. Care Dimensions is the largest hospice provider in Massachusetts. Additionally, Patel is a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and speaks locally and nationally.

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Discrimination Fears Deter LGBTQ+ Patients From Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

“These are really difficult conversations to have with anyone, but there’s been so much trauma in the LGBTQ+ community that providers need to have a real understanding about,” Fitting told Hospice News. The hospice, home health and palliative care provider serves close to 40,000 patients.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.” So, these U.S.

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Thinking Innovatively About Your Nursing Career Development

Minority Nurse

For example, let’s say you’ve spent the first eight years of your nursing career in med-surg, telemetry, and step-down, and now you realize that hospice is what you’ve always wanted but have been afraid to explore a non-acute setting. You can call a friend who works in hospice and ask if you can pick her brain.

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