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Great Lakes Health Partners CEO: Employee Grief Support Can Boost Recruitment, Retention

Hospice News

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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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

Hospice News

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Treating Burnout, Trauma, and Grief with Dance

Minority Nurse

It felt like I had both my joy and my grief coupled together in all that I did.” Everything pointed to one thing: our nurses are tired, overworked, and our healthcare systems are not set up for them to thrive and successfully care for patients.” The nurses, doctors, and other healthcare personnel testimonials were breathtaking.

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Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

Hospice News

Fear of regulatory attention, audits or post-payment reviews related to longer stays could drive some hospice providers to discharge patients who can still benefit from their services, according to Dr. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer for VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM). “In

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A Nurse’s Journey Through Grief, Action, and Story Sharing

Nurse.com

Most notably, she has worked to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity across the country using a transformative training software specifically designed for healthcare. For me, I knew going into nursing school that I was interested in eventually transitioning to the business side of the healthcare industry.

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Providers, Including Ohio’s Hospice, Feel the Squeeze from Inflation and Flat Reimbursement Growth

Hospice News

In addition to hospice, Ohio’s Hospice offers advance care planning services, along with caregiver, grief support and veterans programs. It also operates a palliative care arm, Pure Healthcare. The hospice also provides disease-specific symptom management for patients with cardiac, oncology and pulmonary conditions.

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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. . The first center began providing grief support services in 1991 following her death. Hosparus Health opens new grief support facility.

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