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Great Lakes Health Partners CEO: Employee Grief Support Can Boost Recruitment, Retention

Hospice News

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?

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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

Hospice News

However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

Hospice News

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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Bill Would Create New State-Level Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

The legislation comes at a time of critical need for supportive services, according to Kerry Moss, palliative care division head at Connecticut Children’s. The pediatric provider launched its palliative care services roughly a decade ago, Moss said. So expanding the bill to include palliative care will be important.”

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End-of-Life Doulas’ Growing Value Proposition in Hospice

Hospice News

End-of-life doulas support patients and their families in a number of broad and diverse ways, according to Erin Collins, program director of The Peaceful Presence Project. Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula.

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Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death. Other implications for practice include how the outcome of these conversations can impact on the grief journey of the parent. The data collected was narrative.

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How Is Dignity Maintained In End-Of-Life Care?

Seasons Hospice

Dignity Is Everything In end-of-life care, maintaining dignity is of utmost importance. It involves honoring individuals’ inherent worth and value, even during their final stages of life. In end-of-life care, preserving dignity is incredibly important.