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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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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.

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Homeland at Home Launches Community-Based Palliative Care Program

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The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

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The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. It comes with hiring the right medical directors and clinicians to make sure patients are eligible. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.”

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

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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.

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Understanding the Shifting Regulations on Psychedelics for the Terminally Ill

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He is a facilitator for Drugs Over Dinner, a nonprofit education initiative around psychedelic therapies in end-of-life care and bereavement services. Steinberg is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc. We are in this sort of psychedelic Renaissance era of therapeutics.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. We have a really significant workforce shortfall right now. It’s probably even going to get a little worse before it gets better.”.

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