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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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

Hospice News

Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

Hospice News

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . Meanwhile, construction of a hospice house in Maryland has ground to a halt. Hosparus Health opens new grief support facility.

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Preventing Burnout Among Palliative Care Employees

Hospice News

Clinicians face relatively high rates of burnout “due to the secondary trauma and emotional exhaustion that develops from working with death and dying daily,” Aprille Waldrop, social services manager for Florida-based Hospice of Health First told Palliative Care News. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers.

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Navigating Hospice Care: A Holistic Guide to End-of-Life Support

Hospice of the North Coast

Hospice services, a specialized form of care tailored to individuals with terminal illnesses and their families, go beyond mere symptom management – they prioritize comfort and solace. What exactly does hospice care entail? Their aim is to elevate the quality of life.

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To See Her Daughter’s Marriage

The Bucket-List Blog

The Hospice Care Plus staff, both for the home hospice program in Berea and those at the Compassionate Care Center in Richmond, immediately began reaching out to friends and supporters to help pull the wedding together. Our chief medical director, Dr. Hanan Budeiri (known to all of us as Dr. B) donated refreshments for a reception.