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

Hospice News

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. We were a service family, and it was just a wonderful sector to be in,” Fleece told Hospice News.

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Hospice Volunteer Meets Patient Living With Dementia

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Henrietta was going to be my new hospice patient, my first at this particular nursing home. Later, she would become my first patient whose health improved so much she was discharged from hospice care. For now, she knew nothing about me, including the fact that I was coming that day to serve as her hospice volunteer.

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Is Death Often More Pleasant Than We Imagine? (Research, Good Death Video 2:49)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Hoping to inspire a conversation about facing death, he let photographer Joshua Bright take pictures of his last days on Earth at home in hospice care. John Hawkins had a good death.

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Kinship Care: What is it?

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

This was my first major introduction to hospice care. Frances Shani Parker Frances Shani Parker is author of Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and off-line booksellers.

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Episode 24: How Do I Get Off this Emotional Roller-coaster?

Living With Hospice

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Transcript: Hello, come on in and welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. I share my insights and offer help to clarify issues revolving around anything and everything hospice with this podcast. We all are unique.

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Episode 26: How Do I Help The Caregiver?

Living With Hospice

Transcript: Welcome back to another episode of Living With Hospice. I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either. My name is Mitch Ware.