Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The opening expands upon the nonprofit hospice’s existing bereavement services, according to Regional Hospice President and CEO Cynthia Emiry Roy. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

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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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

Idaho-based Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley has initiated Spanish-speaking services in an effort to reach underserved Latino patients and families. Right now, all of our bereavement support groups are in English only,” Wild told local news. ““We We are working with St.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

New CEO Takes Reigns at Sangre de Cristo Community Care Colorado-based Sangre de Cristo Community Care named Melinda Egging as its new CEO. Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. This marks her return to the organization.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Arizona-based Phoenix Children’s Hospital has developed a pediatric hospice and palliative care fellowship program that is positively impacting access to these services. Communication skills are among the most significant components of shaping a sustainable pediatric palliative care workforce, Shaw said. “A

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Pennsylvania-based Homeland at Home recently added community-based palliative care to its repertoire of services in response to rising demand for this care. Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

million in the state’s 2023 fiscal year budget to support pediatric palliative care access. The funding is intended to support expanded palliative care services for seriously and terminally ill children amid rising demand. Sal DiDomenico has been a primary advocate of pediatric palliative care in the state’s legislature.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. The foundation aims to identify and address gaps in the health care continuum to help improve the quality of life for the seriously and terminally ill.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The bereavement care tech platform Empathy is now partnering with the software company Benekiva in an effort to streamline life insurance claims processing and help families access benefits more quickly. The average cost to the bereaved exceeds $12,000. The company’s clients include a number of Fortune 100 companies.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Iowa-based Hospice of Washington County is rebuilding and relocating its administrative offices, which also houses the provider’s palliative care clinic. electing the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. By 2030, seniors are projected to make up more than a quarter or 26.9%

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Register to attend here The post EAPC Webinar: Public Health Approaches to Bereavement Support appeared first on EAPC. The start time may be different for you in your country. The start time may be different for you in your country.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death. Research that considers the place of death of children where death is expected, varies in number depending on diagnosis.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. The massive loss of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic — more than 1 million deaths since 2020 — has spurred demand for bereavement care and was a partial impetus for the legislation. .

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

The theme of the seminar ‘A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care’ is highly relevant as 2023 marks 75 years since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nationals General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Palliative care can be equally rewarding and challenging. The right professional can be instrumental in ensuring patients’ needs are met to make their period of care more comfortable. So much of who people are impacts their experience of the palliative journey.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Health systems are increasingly growing their hospice and palliative care service lines, with philanthropy among the key ways to fuel these programs’ sustainability. Funding palliative, bereavement care Illinois-based Endeavor Health serves more than 1.3 We see this as a significant need amongst our communities.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. They were at best insufficiently supportive and at worst partially obstructive to provision of hospice care in disasters.” COVID-19 caused widespread disruption across the health care system, including among hospices.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

The organization based its findings on indicators such as the number of people who passed away in their homes, the availability of palliative care, access to green burials and funeral costs. . The analysis also took into account the ratio of Medicare-certified health care providers to eligible patients, as well as probate processes.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Announces New Facility Plans Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc. has opened a new inpatient center in Illinois.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

The unification will “allow for greater consistency across the Hospice of the Chesapeake service area,” the hospice and palliative care provider indicated in an announcement. In addition to providing hospice, the organization offers grief support and palliative care services at the Chesapeake Supportive Care and Chesapeake Life Center.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The bereavement care tech startup Empathy has secured $47 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures. The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, validating a will and other essentials.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Chaired by Steve Marshall, the session will include presentations on: What is music therapy, and how is it applied within palliative and end-of-life care- Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener Music therapy in bereavement – what are the benefits? Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener What is the future role of music therapy in bereavement?

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Hospice and palliative care providers can benefit from understanding federal and state laws around the use of psychedelics by serious and terminally ill patients. Fratkin, palliative care specialist for Humboldt Center for New Growth, and founding partner and principal palliative care consultant at Fire & Water Consulting.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

George Mark Children’s House (GMCH) recently unveiled a pilot training program that aims to grow the pediatric palliative care nursing workforce, in partnership with The California State University (CSU) Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care. The Hearst Foundation partly financed the program with a $150,000 grant.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Joining forces will also allow the two Pennsylvania-based nonprofit hospice and palliative care providers to realize cost-savings potential when it comes to purchasing durable medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The idea to open a new hospice in Arizona came from the personal experience of losing a close loved one alongside the professional backgrounds of witnessing the challenges in end-of-life care delivery, Seebert told Hospice News in a recent interview. We also began a texting communications program, which will enhance our bereavement program.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Many patients fall through the cracks of the nation’s health care system, and hospice and palliative care providers can help to fill in some of those gaps, according to Sonya Dolan, director of operations at California-based Mettle Health.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2022

When it comes to communication and quality of care for Black patients, recent data reinforces the notion that hospices have room to grow. Additionally, bereaved family members of Black patients rated the quality of communication with hospices as lower than other health care providers. African Americans made up a mere 8.2%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement. The research included more than 1,000 large companies in 15 countries.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. Hospices also lack quality measures associated with bereavement care. This is such a big issue.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Palliative care will be expanded. Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care. The hospice and palliative care provider operates in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Texas.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Difference Between Palliative Care & Hospice Care If you have a loved one who is living with a chronic or debilitating illness, you have probably heard of ‘palliative care’ and ‘hospice care’ and may have simply assumed they were the same. Palliative Care: What Is It?

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