GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. We’ve got a lot to cover. Susan: I do.

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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. Janna Baker Rogers, a board-certified physician in both palliative and emergency medicine with West Virginia University Medical, said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Annual Summit.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As hospices nationwide develop new services to engage patients further upstream, some are rebranding to reflect their expanded scope and to avoid the word “hospice” in their company names, hoping to ameliorate patients’ anxiety about end-of-life care.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Dignity Is Everything In end-of-life care, maintaining dignity is of utmost importance. It involves honoring individuals’ inherent worth and value, even during their final stages of life. In end-of-life care, preserving dignity is incredibly important.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

To be able to support even more people going through one of life’s most difficult times will be so meaningful for our team, and we hope, the community too.” Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan.

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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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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

The Denver Hospice – an affiliate of the Care Synergy network – has named a new president. The end-of-life care provider announced the hiring of Ernesto Lopez on July 11. The Denver Hospice is one of the largest end-of-life care providers in its region. 21, according to the organization. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. This window into a patient’s conditions has helped hospice teams better assess approaches to care delivery, Escalante said.

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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. We’re very much looking ahead to this year,” Parsons told local news.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

YoloCares provides hospice, palliative and supportive care in five counties across northern California, recently adding a sixth county to its service region. The regional hospice collaborative group of nonprofit hospice and palliative providers also includes Hospice of the Foothills and Hospice of Santa Cruz County.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services. Scott also has a background in hospice chaplaincy and serves as chair of the diversity committee at the Hospice & Palliative Network of Maryland.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers. Littlefield steps in to lead the organization after three decades of experience in the hospice and palliative care space. “I

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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. That’s a robust, multidisciplinary form of palliative care that will be distinct from hospice.

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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. The closest we’ve come to defining it is a ‘philosophy of care.’”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hospices are reaching an inflection point when it comes to breaking down communication barriers around spiritual care among underserved communities, according to William Williamson, who recently became the new director of faith outreach at AMOREM. Is the director of faith outreach a newly developed role at AMOREM, or an existing position?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Prior to his role at Transcend, he was senior vice president of marketing and communications for AccentCare, which merged with Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2021. In Florida, Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care rebranded into a larger company with a wider range of services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earlier in the year, Yonah Klein was appointed director of strategy at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care. Technology a key to growing home-based hospice care, workforce The future of end-of-life care is heading further into the home, according to Klein. prior to that.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) has merged with Stillwater Hospice amid mounting financial pressures. The two Indiana-based nonprofit hospices joined forces to ensure continued access to end-of-life care in the Kosciusko County area. in 2020, reported the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? Palliative care is a type of medical care that focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, stress, and pain of serious illnesses. How Long Can You Be In Palliative Care? But how long can you stay in the program, and is it effective if you do?

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This article explores key nursing liability issues associated with the pandemic, including immunity, documentation, crisis standards of care, delegation and assignment, scope of practice, floating, travel nursing, telehealth, and misinformation and social media. Integrating Palliative Care into Nursing Care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. Fetzer was previously associate medical director at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, now part of the AMITA Health system. He’ll continue to serve as CMO of both organizations.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What Is Palliative Care? When having a loved one that is dealing with a terminal disease, you may come across the option of Palliative care. Palliative care is a type of medical treatment that helps to improve the quality of life for people living with serious illnesses.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dr Leiva posted earlier this week about the gratitude and privilege of working in palliative care (translated words below). Dr. Leiva, a specialist in Family and Community Medicine and a pioneer in the development of renal palliative care in Spain, worked as a palliative physician at the Santa Marina Hospital in Bilbao (Osakidetza).

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

The unit allows for expanded access to inpatient hospice care in the community during a time of increasing need, according to Ron Gicca, president of Melbourne Regional Medical Center. The compassionate palliative care services that are available to the Melbourne community are so greatly appreciated,” Gicca said in an announcement. “We

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nationwide, existing support and services are often scarce or insufficient to meet families’ needs, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). It’s a very heavy burden of caregiving to then step out and start finding the resources that they need.”.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

“Closing the inpatient facility will allow Hospice Ministries to put more focus on providing end of life care to patients in their ‘homes,’ whether it be their personal residence, a nursing home, or an assisted living facility.” The hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“This is a tremendous opportunity to offer experienced, hospital-based hospice care to patients who are too fragile or unstable to be transferred to another location,” Mattson said in a press release. Staff of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators will provide hospice care at the center.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. In 2021, these conditions tied with cancer as the most frequently occurring principal diagnoses for Medicare decedents who elected the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 billion for patients in their last year of life, according to a joint report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Other providers in the group include Kalos Health, Liberty Home Care, Hospice of Orleans and The Niagara Hospice Alliance. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Mission Hospice, By the Bay Health, and Hope Hospice share a rich history and commitment to serving the Bay Area community with comprehensive end-of-life care, education, and grief support,” said Mission Hospice CEO Dolores Miller, in a statement.

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HPNA podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Reinke is the Claire Dumke Ryberg, RN, Presidential Endowed Chair for Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Utah, College of Nursing. Dr. Reinke’s clinical practice and program of research focuses on improving the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care for patients with serious illnesses.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Though utilization runs low compared to other states, the need for hospice care is high in Hawaii. NHPCO Appoints New Finance VP.

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 9, 2021

Dealing with grief associated with COVID, restrictions, etc. Finding education in palliative and end-of-life care education and training. In July 2021 we invited PSWs (HCAs/CCAs) to identify their top five concerns. Their response: Preventing compassion fatigue and burnout. Working short staffed. […].

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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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