Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The online clinical training platform CareAcademy has developed a hospice care curriculum. The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians.

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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. The hospital-based hospice unit marks Hospice of Cincinnati’s fifth inpatient location.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. We are in the process of adding a massage therapist who specializes in pediatric end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

These one-time retention bonuses were funded through unspent Provider Relief Funds, and were designed to increase VITAS’ clinical staff teams of licensed nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. Go out and ride with a hospice aide or clinician. Get to the bedside every now and then.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

In a recent comment letter , NHPCO included examples of hospital pressures on hospices and recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or its contractors “should publish specific and accessible guidance about the hospital mortality metric specifically for hospitals and hospices.”

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APRIL 11, 2020

Facilities are limiting the amount of visitors, including hospice team members. Hospice Social Workers, Hospice Chaplains and even Hospice Aides are now being asked to work from home, calling in and checking on patients via phone, while many hospices are even laying off team members.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Hospice News sat down with McGlory to discuss the factors that led her to pivot her career toward end-of-life care, what she designed Guaranteed to achieve, and her strategies for making that happen. Have you previously worked in health care or hospice before? We have a consistent feedback loop.

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