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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

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Natarajan’s role expanded after previously serving as the post-acute company’s chief medical officer for hospice since 2005. In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives.

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Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

Guidry also recently published a book to help guide doctors who are considering a career in hospice and palliative care called “Dr. G at the Heart of Healthcare.” Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry What drew you to the hospice and palliative care field? That was in 2005.

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Using Death Doulas in Healthcare

Journey With Deanna

Present day healthcare services are squeezed for time, doulas and practitioners need experiences and the person who is ill and dying and their family needs attention. End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005

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Why Do Most People Receive Less Time in Hospice than Recommended?

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Hospice is unique among healthcare benefits. Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. 2005; 30: 400-407.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care.

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You Don't Have to Be Dying To Get This

Journey With Deanna

There is still so much misunderstanding about Palliative Care in and outside of Healthcare. There are educational videos I have found on the internet and definitions about Palliative Care that are flat out wrong. What is wrong: they are saying that palliative care is what you use at the end of life.

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Self Care for EOL Workers

Journey With Deanna

Support for self-care among workers who serve the dying is not as popular as you may think. It seems obvious that for hospice workers, hospital workers, firefiighters, paramedics and others in the healthcare world that taking very good care of ourselves would be a given, understood by all and supported by our employers.Craig Williams, L.A.c.,

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