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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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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.

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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

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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. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Vermont, Utah Ranked ‘Best Places to Die’ by PolicyGenius

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The analysis also took into account the ratio of Medicare-certified health care providers to eligible patients, as well as probate processes. The analysis cited data for each metric ranging from 2018 to early 2022, depending on the individual indicator. For deaths at home, for example, the report included numbers from 2018 to 2021.

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How Advance Care Planning Affects Caregivers, Health Care Costs

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of 955, 777 Medicare decedents who died between 2017 and 2018 utilized these services, a JAMA Health Forum study found. Earlier hospice access through advance care planning can help improve grief care outcomes as well, according to Kwan. These families can often have complicated grief experiences, Chiaramonte agreed.

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St. Francis Reflections Lifestage Care Launches New Florida Inpatient Hospice Center

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Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. The Sunshine State in 2018 ranked third nationwide for hospice utilization at 57.9%

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO.

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Hospice of Washington County Relocates Offices, Palliative Care Clinic

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Along with administrative offices, the location will be home to Hospice of Washington County’s outpatient palliative care clinic, along with its bereavement and grief counseling offices. Iowa ranked seventh nationwide in hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, with 56.2% Census Bureau. of the population.