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Shoring Up the Next Generation of Hospice Chaplains

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More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. This can make recruitment and retention difficult among the next generation of the spiritual care workforce. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.

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Hunterdon Hospice’s Relaunches Trauma-Informed Bereavement Program

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These deaths can be traumatizing and bring on complicated grief experiences, with some individuals needing greater support compared to other types of losses, according to Laura Suozzo, licensed clinical social worker and bereavement coordinator at Hunterdon Hospice. “We Their sadness is so raw and painful.

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The Rise of Tech-Enabled Grief Care

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There’s never going to be enough hospice bereavement coordinators to make sure every single person gets what they need. In either case, the ubiquitous accessibility of smartphones has enabled several to scale globally relatively quickly.

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Hospices Leverage School-Based Partnerships to Strengthen Bereavement Care

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Having peer-based grief programs offers children, adolescents and teens a safe place to process a loss with others going through similar experiences and emotions, according to Jenny Sytkowski, bereavement coordinator at Hospice Alliance. The Wisconsin-based nonprofit provides hospice and supportive care as well as bereavement services.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

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White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka. Interim is a national franchisor of home care, home health, hospice and medical staffing services and a portfolio company of Caring Brands International.

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

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When you think about nurses and bereavement coordinators and clinicians facing burnout and just struggling at work, it’s sort of the same as when we’re grieving,” Payne said. “We We can’t take in huge amounts of information.

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Phoenix Children’s Palliative Chief: Shift the Culture in Health Care

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Shaw’s large staff includes eight board-certified doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a social worker, a mental health therapist, a bereavement coordinator, a bereavement counselor, a psychologist, a nurse coordinator and a medical assistant. It started as a program, and grew into a section and, finally, a division.

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