Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

.” Empath Health Jonathan Fleece speaks at Hospice News’ 2023 Elevate Conference Empath Health, in its current form, emerged in 2020 from a merger with Stratum Health, where Fleece was previously CEO. The combined organization later unified their businesses under the Empath Health brand.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

California-based Hospice by the Bay has rebranded as By the Bay Health to recognize that it now offers more services than end-of-life care, including palliative care, comfort care, grief counseling, pediatric care, and skilled home health care as well as hospice services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

In addition to providing hospice, the organization offers grief support and palliative care services at the Chesapeake Supportive Care and Chesapeake Life Center. Calvert Hospice affiliated with Hospice of the Chesapeake in June last year, not long after Hospice of Charles County in fall 2020.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. Established in 1981, Blue Ridge offers hospice, palliative care and community grief support services. Natarajan’s role expanded after previously serving as the post-acute company’s chief medical officer for hospice since 2005.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services. A nationwide survey from Pew Research Center in 2020 of more than 8,600 African Americans found that nearly three-quarters identify their belief system as some type of Christian faith, while 3% identify as non-Christians.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Empath Health CEO Jonathan Fleece Trustbridge provides comprehensive care that addresses the needs of patients at any stage of their illness with services including palliative care, hospice care, grief support services, pharmacy and durable medical equipment. After closing with Trustbridge, the organization will operate seven hospice brands.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Mettle Health took root in 2020 when hospice and palliative care physician BJ Miller co-founded the for-profit company with Dolan, an artist and hospice manager at the time. It’s finding those universal truths and bringing your humanity to provide better care and help people navigate grief, loss and the end of life.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

California-based Hospice by the Bay has also rebranded as By the Bay Health to recognize that it now offers more services than end-of-life care, including palliative care, comfort care, grief counseling, pediatric care, and skilled home health care as well as hospice services. Kudner has experienced this process firsthand.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

in 2020, reported the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Plans are in motion for additional programs following the merger, such as expanded grief support services, Friedell added. KHCH has felt the financial brunt of competing for scarce resources during prolific workforce shortages, he indicated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

More than a third (34%) of family caregivers were Baby Boomers in 2020, according to a report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. Is that a barrier that then needs to be addressed and is being addressed?”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. Two years prior in 2020, Regional Hospice launched plans to build an inpatient children’s wing at its Center for Comfort and Healing, growing its pediatric hospice programming.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

An estimated 1-in-24 cases of elder abuse and neglect go unreported annually in the United States, a 2020 Elsevier study found. McKinnis also has a private therapy practice and previously served as the director of patient and family support and grief services for the North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He previously served as the hospice organization’s corporate director of business development since 2020. Established more than 45 years ago, the nonprofit organization now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice palliative and pediatric care, as well as grief support and skilled home health care. prior to that.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

In addition to hospice, HopeWest also provides palliative care and grief support services across an 8,000 square-mile region of western Colorado. Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

in 2020, according to data from the U. Providers often extend grief care available throughout their entire communities, regardless of whether the deceased was a patient. About 41% of adults reported symptoms associated with anxiety and depressive disorder in 2021, compared to 11% during 2019, reported the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The organization also plans to add home health, medical services, grief care, personal care, and its Empath Partners in Care (EPIC) services, designed to care for HIV/AIDS patients. Empath Health merged with Stratum Health System in 2020 with the intention to offer a full continuum of home- and community-based care.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

2020 letter to then U.S The hospice also offered a virtual memorial service for families and the public to celebrate the lives of their deceased loved ones and offer some comfort to one another in their grief. So far in 2020, fundraising options are once again expanding. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. The nonprofit provided 16,233 palliative care visits across six hospitals that year, which was an additional 10,000 visits compared to 2020. The organization launched its telemedicine program in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

The law firm served roughly 550 individuals statewide in 2020. Cogswell has led the organization for the past 36 years. As Bigiarelli takes the helm, she will be focused on growth, she said in an announcement. The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said. Palliative care will be expanded. The bottom line is to help more people.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative, grief support and advanced care planning services. He previously served in similar roles at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care since 2016 prior to its merger in 2020 with AccentCare. He has also held chaplain roles at VCU Health and Freda H.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. The company merged with Stratum Health in 2020, and has been on a growth trajectory since. “She Kaua‘i Hospice has served patients since 1983 and is the only hospice provider located on the “Garden Island” in Lihu‘e, Hawaii.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support. She is also founder and owner of Your Total Health Clinic and Day Spa, a women’s wellness center in Houston that began services in 2020.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

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). Other implications for practice include how the outcome of these conversations can impact on the grief journey of the parent.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2020 the company merged with Stratum Health, and earlier this year received a green light to expand services across three additional counties in the central region of the Sunshine State. She deeply understands HopeWest exists to serve our community, enrich lives and profoundly change the experience of aging, illness and grief.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Grief support. 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. Accepting Grief. Most people think of grief in terms of what happens after a loved one dies.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 21, 2022

Most recently you have become a member of our Rainbows grief program. Despite all the struggles that we have encountered since early 2020, you have been willing to help as much as possible with so many of our families. You have also spent the past year providing companionship to a woman that is grieving the loss of her daughter.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. Turns out, it’s maybe not. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Red M.D.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

(published in General Surgery News September 2020). The cause of death imprinted on that death certificate, along with the fear, pain and suffering that I assume it caused my dad, and the grief, sadness and never-ending longing that it evoked within me and many members of my family, is never far from my mind. For me, it works.

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NHPCO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our nation is suffering a collective and overwhelming grief as a result of this pandemic,” Representative Joe Morelle said. (Alexandria, Va) – The Hospice Action Network (HAN), the advocacy affiliate of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization , is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Hospice Action Network Angel Award.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Loss, Losing and Loosening, poetry for grief and loss . In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEntyre about poetry and aging. Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

A red 1982 Toyota Corona – Popularity has decreased since 2020. Mum’s eyesight was destroyed by an autoimmune condition called Uveitis. This stopped her from driving her car that she had owned since it was brand new. Not being able to drive limited Mum’s independence. I agreed with the decision he made, he knew her better than anyone.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

So my piece is really reflections around caring for my mom who died toward the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, and the influence of my work in hospice and palliative care and the perspective that I brought to my care for her in that time. As I went through my grief process, journaling and writing was not something I did.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. .

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. Alex: I wanted to also say Rick Moody has this wonderful quote from the Talmud at the end of his article, “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. So again, thinking of the work Leslie does.

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