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Community Hospice & Palliative Care Pediatric Program Doubles Nursing Workforce as Census Grows

Hospice News

The pediatric program’s current average daily census hovers around 240 patients, a climb from roughly 55 patients in 2008, according to Danielle Eaves, child life and therapeutic recreation specialist for the Community PedsCare program.

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Talking With a Hospice Chaplain

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Blane Brazier has worked full time in hospice since 2008. He currently works at Amity Hospice as their Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator where he also facilitates grief groups for bereaved family members. He has a unique ministry of using his guitar or sometimes the ukulele to engage the spiritual life of his patient's.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

Hospice News

Howe is passionate regarding education as he leads teams of specially trained clinical staff, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses, social workers, chaplains and certified nurse aides, all of whom he believes are experts in the care of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.”. ALC Hospice Care Names COO.

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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

Hospice News

Brazzale was the first physician to be selected for Trustbridge’s fellowship program when it launched in 2008 and has stuck with the nonprofit hospice provider ever since. Katherine Brazzale as its new chief medical officer of hospice services. Leigh Anderson will be its new medical director.

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Nurses Help Nurses Succeed, Stay Safe, and De-Stress

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Thomas, who began her nursing career at The Cleveland Clinic in 2004, remembered a program called Code Lavender that was developed and launched by the hospital in 2008. “I wanted to implement a program that could provide emotional support to nurses and other staff during these difficult times.”

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

High Peaks Hospice

These experiences led him to take a 1-year course in Clinical Pastoral Education – a course that certifies ministers to work in hospitals as chaplains. He received the Hospice Person of the Year Award in 2008 from the Idaho State Hospice Association. At the time he was not sure what he would do with it but knew it was important to him.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. Same for the nutritionist and the chaplain and all these people.