Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

Hospices may be seeing a growing need for trauma-informed bereavement services on the horizon. Shaping their grief support programs with this trend in mind will be pivotal to hospices ability to expand the depth and reach of their services. Its not something that you think of [in] hospice bereavement.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc. Relatively few CAPABLE programs exist in the Southeast, according to Kathleen Benton, president and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice Savannahs CAPABLE program is designed to help improve general safety, reduce falls and increase accessibility and improve functional abilities in the home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The temporary telemedicine rules allowed hospices and other health care providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine such as ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, among other drugs. But it’s more likely at this point that this will continue to get kicked down the road again at the end of 2025.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Mahogany Home Health and Hospice recently launched services in southwestern Ohio. The new hospice startup is the first Black-owned hospice and home health organization statewide with a drive to improve utilization among underserved populations. Couzens has also held hospice chaplain roles at St.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Harley School is seeking to inspire a new generation of hospice professionals to enter the field with educational programs that highlight the meaningful work involved in end-of-life care delivery. What I hear from students after they graduate is that they often feel like were planting seeds, Prince told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Finding the right balance of support and career development for bereavement care professionals is key to recruitment and retention as hospices combat labor strains. Grief care specialists take on challenging roles as they help families navigate the financial and emotional aspects of a loved one’s loss.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Blue Ridge Care has unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care. The Virginia-based nonprofit hospice, palliative care and PACE provider financed the center through philanthropic donations. In one display, a collection of rocks symbolizes the weight of grief.

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Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

North Carolina-based Hospice of Davidson County (HODC) will soon unveil a summer grief camp for bereaved children and teens. Dubbed Camp Comfort, the new grief program launches this Thursday for children in 1st through 5th grade. Children are often overlooked when it comes to processing loss and grief,” Warner said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

California-based Hoffmann Hospice has established a grief camp designed for children and teens who are mourning a first responder. The organization expects 10 to 12 participants in 2024, compared to about 30 for their more general grief programs for children, according to Ryan D’Amato, family support manager for Hoffmann Hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Several executives are stepping into new roles at hospice organizations across the country as the new year draws near. Brand was previously senior vice president of hospice and palliative care at New York-based VNS Health, holding a similar role at CareCentrix prior to that. Nasdaq: PNTG). million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

A proliferating number of startups is developing tech solutions and services to support bereaved families, employing a range of business models — including partnerships with hospices. There’s never going to be enough hospice bereavement coordinators to make sure every single person gets what they need.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This reality is driving some hospices to forge stronger collaborations with providers of after-loss services. One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

Training staff and volunteers to provide developmentally-appropriate grief support is among the key parts of operating summer camp programs for children and adolescents suffering a recent loss. The hospice provider has operated the camp for the past two decades, open to any child 8–17 years old who has experienced a recent death.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The California-based hospice provider YoloCares has recently received nearly $1.14 million in funding to launch a new residential hospice shelter for homeless populations. The site is really going to operate more as a shelter,” he told Hospice News. Theoretically, any hospice provider could refer a patient there.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

Fleece was among several post-acute care leaders who appeared at the hearing, representing home health, hospice, skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation hospitals and other stakeholders. Empath now serves 1 in 5 hospice patients in its home state, the company reported. House of Representatives Ways & Means Health Subcommittee.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Florida-based nonprofit hospice and senior care provider Empath Health has been steadily expanding its footprint as well as its service lines. Empath Health has grown into one of the largest hospice providers in the nation. The post How Empath Health Achieves Growth by Taking on Risk appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

What developed was this fast friendship that became this silver lining in a very tumultuous and dark time in our lives,” Nissim told Hospice News. Through the app, the traumatized or bereaved receive a customized set of resources and services designed to help guide them through healing and grief, according to DayNew.

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Life & Death Matters

JUNE 20, 2024

When I was asked to write this blog post, I didn’t know much about the term ‘grief literacy’! Once I did a bunch of reading, I feel I have a much better grasp on the subject. […] The post Grief Literacy – What is it? I was given a few research article, but other than that, I hadn’t really come across it that often.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

The grief care startup Betterleave has established partnerships with two Texas Hospices, Sonder Hospice in Austin and LoveWell Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Though the company still pursues those employer relationships, in late 2022 it began to seek partnerships with hospices.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. Establishing a National Grief Strategy will help people move forward with the help of skilled professionals creating a culture of awareness and support. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Hospices need a nimble, innovative approach to sustainable retention in todays competitive health care workforce climate. Prolific staffing shortages and an increasingly crowded hospice market have created an intensely challenging hiring environment, according to Dr. Raihan Faroqui, head of clinical partnerships at Guaranteed Health.

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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. We’ve put it out there to the entire hospice team, picking times and days that work best for them.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Hospices have opened doors to some of the most innovative opportunities around community and public education to help dispel barriers to greater awareness of their services. This challenge superseded consolidation trends in the hospice market and changing payment dynamics. James Earl Carter Jr. His administration launched the U.S.

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HopeHealth

JULY 26, 2024

We had been married 55 Read More The post “She healed my heart”: In grief support group, a friendship blossoms appeared first on HopeHealth. At age 33, her world felt like it was crumbling beneath her. That same year, Pat, age 79, lost her husband. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2024

Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake has been pursuing innovation in its bereavement and caregiver support programs. The nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider offers grief care to its entire community regardless of whether a family member was one of their patients.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Hospices competing for sparse staffing resources are increasingly recognizing the retention value of including grief care support in their benefits packages. When employees feel cared for, they’re 60% more likely to remain at a company for three or more years,” McCarty Abbott told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Several hospice and health care organizations have appointed new leaders to take the helm during a time of growing demand nationwide. Calvary is the only hospital in the United States thats specifically dedicated to providing hospice and palliative care. Fosina was previously the hospitals COO, serving in the role since March 2024.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode of Hospice News Elevate, Senior Reporter Holly Vossel speaks with Chloe Bishop, a bereavement and social work supervisor at Frederick Health Hospice (FHH). The post Elevate Podcast: Chloe Bishop, Bereavement & Social Work Supervisor, Frederick Health Hospice appeared first on Hospice News.

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JULY 16, 2024

Fraudulent activity in the hospice space may be leaving some families without sufficient bereavement support. Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated. The impacts of fraudulent activity in hospice on patients and their families can be devastating,” Kraus told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

South Carolina-based Hospice Care of the Lowcountry is rebranding as MiraSol Health. The hospices new name contains the Latin word Sol, meaning sun. While hospice care remains a cornerstone of our mission, this rebrand enables us to better represent the full spectrum of services we provide, including palliative care and grief support.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Combined, the two organizations provide hospice and palliative care to more than 7,000 patients annually across Brevard, Martin, St. The deal includes Treasure Coast Hospice, which the health system established in 1982. Francis Reflections operates two general inpatient hospice care units in Melbourne and Titusville, Florida.

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HopeHealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A Brown University medical student is working with HopeHealth to research how music can help us cope with grief. The post Can music help you cope with grief? The response has been powerful. This researcher aims to find out appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Judi’s House/JAG Institute is a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that provides bereavement services to adults and youths and also offers grief support training to mental health professionals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. The theme speaks directly to the hospice’s efforts around health equity, according to Cabot.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cameron Muir has been named as the new CMO of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). His new title signals the organization’s strategic plans to reshape hospice care delivery through patient-centered, innovative approaches, according to NPHI CEO Tom Koutsoumpas.

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