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.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Expanded definition of the IDT: The legislation will allow hospices, starting in 2024, to use marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and mental health counselors (MHCs) as part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. That cut was averted, protecting hospice patients and providers. It also directs the U.S.
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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.
Hospice News
JULY 22, 2022
Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. There’s definitely a bedside element to doulaship that can help fill in gaps of hospice staff time, as well as ease caregiver burden.
NHPCO
JUNE 21, 2023
By definition, statute, and regulation, hospices provide interdisciplinary care driven by patient goals. Hospice patients receive care from a team that includes doctors, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care providers, bereavement care professionals, and trained volunteers.
1-800-HOSPICE
APRIL 11, 2023
Defining Palliative Care To appreciate the difference between palliative care and hospice , consider the definition of palliative care offered by the Center to Advance Palliative Care: 2 Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.
The Chaplain's Report
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
He had declined a chaplain for support as well as our social worker. I initially started calling Frank for bereavement support but found I couldn’t get very far. Was I a bereavement counselor, a chaplain, a friend, or a therapist? Typically in hospice we offer to follow folks for a year for bereavement.
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