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Shoring Up the Next Generation of Hospice Chaplains

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Couzens most recently served as hospice executive director of Hartford Healthcare at Home, part of The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG). From a retention standpoint, many times a spiritual care providers direct supervisor is a nurse, a social worker or someone other than another spiritual care provider, Couzens told Hospice News.

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Hospice Educators ‘Planting Seeds’ Among High School Students

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Based in Rochester, New York, the college preparatory schools curriculum includes a broad range of topics such as visual and performing arts, training in nursery and childhood education, civic engagement and a program focused on hospice education. Grief education is an additional huge part of the hospice program, she said.

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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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It can also deter them from receiving much-needed services during times of serious or terminal illness, researchers indicated. The study was funded in part by the U.S. Black populations have long-faced a history of racism that has affected the ways they access and receive care, according to a recent study.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.” Median length of stay rates reached 18 days during that time frame, the MedPAC report found. The average length of stay among hospice decedents was 95.3

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Hospice Physician John Mulder: Hospice Physicians Must Adapt to Value-Based Care

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In addition to his role at Faith Hospice, Mulder is executive director of the Trillium Institute, medical director for Holland Home and the director of the Division of Palliative Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. Part of the challenge is that financial benefit typically accrues to the payer sources.

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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

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As for myself, my years at hospice have taught me about the value and appreciation of time, and I look forward to spending it with family and friends, interests, and new pursuits.” Whitaker has been part of By the Bay’s diversifying service trajectory over the years. Fertitta Family College of Medicine.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Bailey Woodhams, Maxwell Healthcare Associates

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Throughout college, I had the amazing job of teaching pre-kindergarten. I would manage a class of 15 children, and it wasn’t chaotic — most of the time. When I graduated from college, my director at the preschool knew I would be moving on to something great. What drew you to this industry? How lucky was I?

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