High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. These experiences led him to take a 1-year course in Clinical Pastoral Education – a course that certifies ministers to work in hospitals as chaplains.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We were very successful at providing it at a break-even point in a skilled nursing or a senior living setting or even a hospital setting, but we struggled in the home setting, and a lot of that actually had to do with: how do we educate our clinicians and treat them more like we do in hospice? It needs to be a part of what we do.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). And specifically around hospice care, end of life care in prisons, is there something that you would change or make sure maybe we do differently or maybe other places do the same?

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