Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

After taking hits during the pandemic, nonprofit hospices are seeing supplemental revenue from resale thrift stores rebound. Many hospice organizations operate these stores to raise money for their programs. We’re definitely seeing an increase in resale shop sales,” Hospice & Community Care CEO Jennifer Graham told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Research is growing around how certain substances such as psychedelics and cannabis can aid in treating pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, migraines and other medical conditions. There are definitely just basic physiological cardiac risks. I don’t see a lot of focus on the possible harms.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

They facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discuss advance care planning, hospice election and advocate the patient’s wishes around ceremony, memorialization and disposition. In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2022

Proposed federal legislation could advance the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. If it were included in the final bill it would give the administration instructions on what they should be thinking about,” Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hospice News recently sat down with Ben Marcantonio, chief operating officer and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), to discuss how hospice providers are navigating a sea of challenges. What led you to step in as interim CEO?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Debbie Jonhston is a registered nurse who founded Viriginia-based Serenity First Hospice in 2021, inspired by the care her father recieved as he reached the end of his life. Johnston is the author of two books, including The Hospice Handbook, which published in June by Advantage Media Group. Hospice is different in the beginning.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Palliative care is often misunderstood and confused with hospice care. Sexten also serves as board chair of the Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Association (WiHPCA). Agrace provides hospice and palliative care across 19 counties in southern Wisconsin. Palliative care is not end-of-life care.”

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As NHPCO advised its members in a Member Alert this morning, the legislation contains measures that will affect hospices positively and negatively. Telehealth extension: The legislation extends hospice telehealth flexibilities through the end of 2024, which were initially enacted as part of the CARES Act in 2020.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Like, oh no, I said it.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization. We create definitions.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

Barbara Karnes, author of 'Gone From My Sight', 'The Little Blue Book' and 'The 11th Hour' explains the role of an end-of-life doula in Hospice, how they can support patients and their families, and the importance of advocating for the dying process. Barbara is an award-winning end of life educator and true pioneer of the hospice industry.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

McGlory came to the space with the goal of returning hospice care back to its roots, while integrating a more modern approach to meet the changing needs and expectations of patients and families. Have you previously worked in health care or hospice before? Definitely. Can you tell me more about your own professional background?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. What is the nature of suffering?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And to do that, we’re joined by hospice pioneer, Barbara Karnes. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year.

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Sahara Hospice Care

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A lot of hospice patients have many resentments from their past and sometimes refuse to see someone who have hurt them in the past. But those feelings can definitely be forgiven! People in hospice care already face a lot of overwhelming issues as it is and don’t need another extra thing creeping on them during the end-of-life process.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Defining spirituality While various definitions have been offered, “spirituality” generally refers to a human experience of connection with self, others, nature and/or a higher power, and a sense of meaning or purpose. What is spiritual care?

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. Daniel Miller, M.D.,

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. Daniel Miller, M.D., Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: We definitely have a case. Keri: Definitely, yes. Definitely a deviation. We don’t think of people as linearly going through the stages of grief anymore, but we understand that anger is an important piece of that for people. Eric: Three steps. Okay, I’m looking forward to this. Eric: Oh yeah. Keri: Yeah.

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The Chaplain's Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Typically in hospice we offer to follow folks for a year for bereavement. With Frank though it had taken a year just to get the point where we could talk about his grief. He had definitely improved, but still had a long way to go. Most of the time that’s plenty, and some don’t even feel the need for that.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

So my piece is really reflections around caring for my mom who died toward the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, and the influence of my work in hospice and palliative care and the perspective that I brought to my care for her in that time. As I went through my grief process, journaling and writing was not something I did.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? LJ: Definitely read it. Sarah: So I think and there are definitely to answer your original question, Eric, that there are populations and and maybe even populations or groups within certain populations that the three of us are working with that have potentially special needs around advance care planning.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. And part of that job, they were looking for somebody to be a medical person in the local hospice. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I’ll try to keep it a little shorter here.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch makes good on a promise made during the first episode to answer questions that readers have submitted over time. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. So, as kids would say, definitely my bad! By the way, Hospice is not an American thing.

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