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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

Hospice News

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. In 2017, the U.S. Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said.

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Laws in Motion to Bring ‘Right to Try’ Psychedelics at End-of-Life

Hospice News

There’s been tremendous progress in a relatively short amount of time that has yielded improvements in end-of-life care,” Tucker told Hospice News. That translates into increased quality of life during such a critically important time for patients.”

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

Hospice News

“Jason has a deep commitment to our community and mission, and he, along with the leadership team, will continue Blue Ridge’s role in building the future of care.” Established in 1981, Blue Ridge offers hospice, palliative care and community grief support services.

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Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Where the child has an oncology diagnosis, there is an established body of evidence, but for children with a life limiting condition, the evidence is more limited (Duc, Herbert and Heussler 2017; Johnston et al 2020). Her positive experience from then impacted heavily on the very different experience she had with her son.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

Hospice News

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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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

She has also presented and published literature on the different types of supportive services, including palliative, hospice, acute and post-acute care. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017. Dr. Howe has more than 14 years of experience in hospice.

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Bluegrass Care Names Clinical Services COO, Hospice Maui Appoints New CEO

Hospice News

In this COO role, Greene will be charged with overseeing operations of all of the organization’s clinical service lines, which include hospice, palliative and home-based primary care in addition to adult day health care, behavioral medicine and clinical pharmacy. Hospice of the Northwest’s executive director steps down.

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