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Grief Care’s 2024 Outlook in Hospice

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Finding the right balance of support and career development for bereavement care professionals is key to recruitment and retention as hospices combat labor strains. Grief care specialists take on challenging roles as they help families navigate the financial and emotional aspects of a loved one’s loss.

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Betterleave to Expand to 12 States Following $2.4M Funding Round

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The bereavement care tech company Betterleave has secured $2.4 Austin-based Betterleave Bereavement launched as a venture capital-backed startup in March 2022. The company’s bereavement care platform is designed as a benefit that companies can offer their employees who have lost a loved one, a pregnancy or a pet.

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Hosparus Cuts Ribbon on $1.7M Community Center

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Hosparus’ Green River office cared for 486 hospice patients in 2021 throughout its 1,600-square-mile, five-county region. The new center will provide medical care, care coordination, emotional and spiritual support, and access to education about end-of-life and serious illness care, as well as advance care planning.

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Grief Care Platform Betterleave Expanding Via New Hospice-Partnership Model

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The company’s platform is designed as a benefit that companies can offer their employees who have lost a loved one, a pregnancy, or a pet, including access to care coordinators, death care experts, products, and counseling services. “There’s so much grief that happens before the event.

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Voices: Melissa Kozak, Founder and Head of CitusHealth

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How does IDT communication play a role in improving care plans? Digital resources also encompass support group details for bereavement and specific health conditions, which help maintain strict adherence to the POC. How can increasing the efficiency of your clinical and non-clinical staff help improve compliance?

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How Changing Reproductive Health Laws Could Impact Perinatal Hospice

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These costs can be compounded by medical expenses, which can further complicate bereavement processes, Nichols said. So it’s providing funeral and financial assistance [and] the emotional and coping and bereavement support not just to the [parent], but others in the family.”

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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

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In 2011, he co-authored the book “The New Age: The Future of Health Care in America,” with the futurist David Houle, which examined the ways the system could evolve in the coming years. . But what brought him to hospice was the bereavement care he and his family received following a loss.

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