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
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
JULY 1, 2022
This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida. The Hosparus Health Resource Center will extend bereavement services and education to underserved communities in that area. No similar facilities exist in Caroline County.
Hospice News
MAY 5, 2022
Hospice of Southern Maine’s is also onboarding social workers Elizabeth Leclaire and Sara Olmsted, as well as Maria McCann as bereavement support counselor. Recent hires also include nurse case managers Caitlin Cunningham and Annette Drouin. It also welcomed a new hospice aide, Meagan York.
Hope Hospice
JULY 12, 2022
Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. A 2020 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization , using data collected in 2018, states that over 50 percent of patients were receiving hospice care for 30 days or fewer. Nursing is just the start.
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. And then our work continues in the bereavement down for a year or more to help the family with the grief. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling. So Oliver, I like this.
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