Hospice News
JUNE 29, 2023
Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health.
Hospice News
APRIL 7, 2023
Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Research indicates that the number of bereaved children nationwide is growing. The organization additionally researches child bereavement services and needs.
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Hospice News
MAY 19, 2022
Incidentally, as of 2018 Utah also had the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 60.5%, compared to that year’s national average of 50.3%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). For deaths at home, for example, the report included numbers from 2018 to 2021.
Hospice News
JANUARY 9, 2023
The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. Payne founded the company in 2018 after selling her house for startup capital. The 13-month timeframe corresponds with the U.S.
Hospice News
APRIL 22, 2022
Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. The Sunshine State in 2018 ranked third nationwide for hospice utilization at 57.9% Seniors are projected to represent nearly a third, or 32.5%, of the state’s overall population by 2030, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hospice News
JANUARY 4, 2024
This standard has been at the top of the noncompliance list among all since at least 2018, according to the U.S. For the latter, many deficiencies occur because social work and bereavement care assessments are not conducted within the required time frame. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospice News
APRIL 28, 2022
The organization in 2021 cared for more than 3,800 hospice patients as well as more than 2,095 on palliative care and close to 500 in bereavement. in 2018, just under the national average of 50.3%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. “We
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