Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The emotional toll of caring for the seriously ill contributes to high rates of burnout among palliative care workers. Burnout is a state of complete mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. Symptoms of burnout can include depression, compassion fatigue, stress and anxiety, and apathy, both in general life and towards work tasks.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. Turns out, it’s maybe not. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 2, 2022

High Peaks Hospice Celebrates National Social Worker Month from March 1-31st. Hospice Social Worker. As a hospice social worker, it is common to have conversations that revolve around anticipatory grief. When discussing anticipatory grief, I like to use the “ball in the jar” metaphor.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Coping with “anticipatory grief” can be amplified among pediatric palliative and hospice clinicians, which could be contributing to higher risk of burnout, according to Debbie Vallandingham, director of social work and grief care services at Angela Hospice. Others are also banding together to form collaborative partnerships.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

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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Sahara Hospice Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A hospice social worker offers many qualities in which helps support the process of hospice. Learn more about the role of a hospice social worker. What is a social worker? Many people don’t know what a social worker is and in fact many social workers are needed for a lot of hospice or palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

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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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

The hospice and palliative provider also offers grief support and services to help address patients’ unmet pet needs. Brubaker Miller is a licensed clinical social worker and brings more than 25 years of experience in the hospice industry. She will step into the role this June. Croix Health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

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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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services. They may have strong emotions, and it’s important to be able to grieve, mourn and experience that anticipatory grief in the context of faith. But a chaplain is someone without that can bridge that gap of trust and access.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Community-based palliative care networks .

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

The fact that my cartoons, thanks to social media, I’m able to sort of get them out there in front of people. Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Guaranteed’s technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. When a loved one comes to the end of their life and enters hospice, the emotion, grief and responsibilities can be very overwhelming.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. California-based Guaranteed launched last year in August by founder and CEO Jessica McGlory. Cottrell has led the nonprofit hospice organization since September 2016.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Established in 1977, Hospice of Cincinnati provides hospice, palliative care, grief support and advanced care planning educational services. “We The health system operates two hospitals, five ambulatory outpatient centers and dozens of medical offices. Staff of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators will provide hospice care at the center.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. Caregivers need practical support and guidance for their experience of taking care of this person, and for their emotional, anticipatory grief they’re feeling.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . The first center began providing grief support services in 1991 following her death. Hosparus Health opens new grief support facility.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I have people who say, “I love that model, but I don’t want a chaplain, I just want a nurse and a social worker.”. A managed care organization may say that they’re really just interested in the social worker and the nurse because that’s where we see the greatest issue with their members. So what do we do?

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 4, 2022

18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss. Processing grief can be a significant challenge to those directly experiencing loss and their loved ones. The Salt Path is an honest and life-affirming true story of coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palliative care teams often include doctors, nurses, social workers as well as counselors who specialize in spiritual and emotional support. What Is Palliative Care? When having a loved one that is dealing with a terminal disease, you may come across the option of Palliative care. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient. McKinnis also has a private therapy practice and previously served as the director of patient and family support and grief services for the North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

People’s experience of loss and grief in the last couple of years with the pandemic has been intensified and amplified in ways that no one‘s really experienced before. A change in leadership occurred last month when former NHPCO President and CEO Edo Banach announced that he would be stepping down after five years at its helm.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Grief support. Accepting Grief. Most people think of grief in terms of what happens after a loved one dies. So, anticipatory grief can be a big part of the hospice journey. Nursing is just the start.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice teams typically include primary healthcare physicians, specialists such as pain management doctors, nurses, home health aides (if applicable), social workers, counselors, chaplains/spiritual advisors, therapists, and volunteers.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

Research also shows that hospice care—at any length of stay—benefits patients, family members, and caregivers, including increased satisfaction and quality of life, improved pain control, reduced physical and emotional distress, and reduced prolonged grief and other emotional distress.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Through the new organization’s integrated, trans-disciplinary team-based approach to health care, patients and families will have comprehensive access to a clinically trained, compassionate team including physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual support and bereavement counselors, home health aides, and physical and occupational therapists.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The hospice care team comprises medical experts, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers who collectively address the needs of patients and their families. This team may include a family member, social worker, or friend taking on a daily role, with assistance from home healthcare aides as necessary.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A comprehensive care team comprised of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual professionals, and trained volunteers. A comprehensive care team comprised of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual professionals, and trained volunteers.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 4, 2023

Social workers offer emotional support to both the child and family, helping them navigate through the challenging emotions accompanying the situation. They can guide families through their grief, helping them understand and validate their feelings of sadness, anger, or guilt.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Alex: So, yeah.

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