Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Seriously ill children represent some of the most underserved populations nationwide in terms of quality and access to supportive health care, according to Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at California-based Anchor Health. There is a great unmet need for supportive care at home. Each year an estimated 2.5

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HPNA podcast

JUNE 3, 2024

Coats, PhD, APRN-BC, FPCN, FAAN is Director of Research for Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and faculty at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, CO.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

“I am excited to join the executive team at Hospice of the Chesapeake and support future growth of the organization as well as continue to ensure the delivery of the highest-quality supportive and hospice care to the community,” Fetzer said. Jarecki announced his retirement last year.

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Solace

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Solace Cremation checked in with several leaders in the end-of-life and hospice arena to gather their views on the lessons he gives us with his choice. This can help to increase access to hospice services and ensure that patients receive the tailored care and support that they need.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Years ago, I thought the customer service side of things in the hospice industry could use some improvement. That, coupled with the increasing age of the [nation’s] population, led me and my wife to start Blue Monarch Hospice. . I often saw slow response times as patients waited sometimes days for nurses to provide care.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

5 Patient recall of end-of-life discussions correlates with higher quality of life for patients and improved bereavement outcomes for caregivers. The Optimism of Hospice Care Hospice care can give patients hope. Prognosis communication in serious illness: Perceptions of older patients, caregivers, and clinicians.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Expert consensus holds that people should receive hospice for three to six months. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers. After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

What are the difficulties of finding gender-affirming hospice care for patients and their families? In a perfect world, finding hospice and palliative care would not be difficult. Hospice care would be unbiased and equal. What can hospices do to build up support systems for this population in particular?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Health care has its own language, and at times the New Yorker and ProPublica appeared to be less than fluent. For example, the article indicated that “half of all Americans” die in hospice care, when actually, that figure applies specifically to Medicare beneficiaries rather than the general U.S. Hospice costs money.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. While at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, a hospice pioneer. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. , But Barbara is an award-winning, end of life educator and registered nurse.

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