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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. The environment in the movie from a care center perspective was exactly what you would expect to see in 2004-2005. “The

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

Hospice News

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Hospice of the Chesapeake is honoring WHPC Day with an Oct.

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

Hospice News

Kaishauna Guidry, a former teacher turned hospice physician, continues to leverage her background in education to help terminally ill patients find the care they need. Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. That was in 2005. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E

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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

Pallimed

Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. For more Pallimed posts about hospice and palliative medince fellowship click here.

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SCM – Life-long Learning

Palliverse

Time for reflection was provided when I presented my findings to tutors and this also involved review of video footage of assessments. They would all come back together to present their information to each other. One or more members of the team could be present either in person or virtually in a more collaborative approach.

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Death Doulas and Palliative Care

Journey With Deanna

You will understand so much more about present services, especially if the person you are accompanying is not on hospice services when you begin working with them. training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005 This is paramount to your work. End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve.

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Barbara Karnes and Demedicalizing Dying

Journey With Deanna

Award winning author and nurse, Barbara Karnes has seen the evolution of the hospice movement from the beginning and has seen what is working and what is not. We have a very frank discussion in this episode of how the new wave of death awareness may fit in to help fix the weak areas in our present system.

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