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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
JULY 5, 2022
Iowa-based Hospice of Washington County is rebuilding and relocating its administrative offices, which also houses the provider’s palliative care clinic. The hospice received a $60,464 grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to fund the rebuild, part of a statewide water quality improvement project.
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Hospice News
JULY 18, 2022
When it comes to communication and quality of care for Black patients, recent data reinforces the notion that hospices have room to grow. Our review found that Black patients with serious illness report poor-quality clinician-patient relationships and communication,” Chambers told Hospice News in an email.
Hospice News
AUGUST 10, 2022
We started this about a decade ago, seeing a lot of children on waiting lists to get pediatric palliative care in local hospitals,” DiDomenico told Hospice News. “A million allocated in the state’s budget during 2018. Massachusetts legislators recently allocated more than $8.7 Massachusetts State Sen. Funding was an issue all along.
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
APRIL 22, 2022
Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. We are thankful the community will now have access to hospice care close to home to service the growing need.”.
Hospice News
APRIL 28, 2022
Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake has penned an agreement to acquire nearby Calvert Hospice for an undisclosed amount. ” Hospice of the Chesapeake has cared for patients since 1979, prior to establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Hospice of the Chesapeake in Oct.
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