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Hospice & Palliative Care of Wood River Valley Works to Reach Underserved Latino Populations

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Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley is part of the Idaho Health Continuum of Care Alliance, a group of post-acute health care providers. This is a rise from 1,367 individuals served in 2021, 135 of whom were hospice patients and families, according to an annual report. Census Bureau.

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Psychedelics, Cannabis Show Promise in End-of-Life Care, But More Research Needed on the Risks

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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. and serves on the national advisory board for the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. HopeHealth is also a hospice and palliative medicine teaching affiliate for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. What do these programs look like, and what services are provided?

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How Changing Reproductive Health Laws Could Impact Perinatal Hospice

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Evolutions in reproductive health laws may have reverberating impacts on the demand and delivery of perinatal hospice care. Perinatal hospice care is provided to families choosing to continue a pregnancy following a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis indicating a high risk of mortality before or shortly after birth.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

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Hudson Valley Hospice Appoints RN as New SVP, COO New York-based Hudson Valley Hospice has appointed Teresa Holstein as its new senior vice president and chief operating officer. Holstein is a registered nurse with more than a decade of hospice and health care experiences in community-based and hospital system programs. “It

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

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I look forward to sustaining the high standard of care the agency is known for and growing services that will meet the ever-changing health care needs in our community.” The nonprofit hospice has served patients in the area since 1979. Hospice Services of Lake County also operates three thrift stores. Raclin House.

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Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Clinicians Face High Burnout Risk

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The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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