NHPCO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

(Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its affiliate group, the Hospice Action Network (HAN) applaud today’s introduction of the Grief Resilience Investment and Education Fund (GRIEF) Act in the House of Representatives by Congressman Joe Morelle (NY-25). Press Contact: . Madison Summers .

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2024

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has also been found to help address grief for families coping with recent loss. A separate study found that only 5% of people using psychedelics viewed their health care providers as an information source. Aggarwal is an integrative palliative physician, scientist and medical geographer.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Whereas the probate data was based on information from early 2022. In 2019, the state enacted a palliative care law, aimed at identifying patients who could benefit from these services and making information more readily available to them.”. and 29.9%, respectively.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Compassus uses its clinical assessment not just to capture a patient’s health information but also to inform their goals, hopes and fears. “In That is the thing that gives them the most anxiety and grief.” In one patient’s case, her greatest concern was making sure that her dog was cared for after she died,” Hale says.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When their last documented goals of care were evaluated, 69% of these patients chose care that focused on palliation, the study found. Adrian is also part of the Mettle Health team, which provides caregiver and patient support. And then that just really throws a wrench into the communications.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

We didn’t really have any available information about changing from one opioid to the other, about… Medicines were used in a very unsophisticated way because we just didn’t know any stuff. Eric: So Susan, very big thank you for joining us on this podcast. We’ve got a lot to cover. You have a song request for Alex?

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

The hospice and palliative provider also offers grief support and services to help address patients’ unmet pet needs. Montgomery Hospice & Prince George’s Hospice other services include grief support and spiritual counseling, veteran services and pediatric hospice care. She will step into the role this June. Croix Health.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Dubbed the Life Transitions Project, more than 50% of respondents reported having no knowledge that palliative care, hospice and related grief services exist, according to a YoloCares report. Hospice and palliative care providers] can prepare to care for these communities by increases in diverse hiring practices.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. The organization will remain a nonprofit hospice, they indicated. Founded in 1975, Alive Hospice provides care to nearly 5,000 patients annually across 12 counties in central Tennessee.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

Visit The Palliative Hub for more information and updates. Visit The Palliative Hub for more information and updates. The post A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care appeared first on EAPC.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative, grief support and advance care planning services. Because they have not been adequately informed about hospice and palliative care, they go to their spiritual advisor or religious guide. Is the director of faith outreach a newly developed role at AMOREM, or an existing position?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That year, Roa took the helm at Avow Hospice, overseeing the growth of its palliative and hospice programs, along with its pediatric grief and veterans programs. Education is key to ensuring compliance, along with fostering an organizational culture of approachability and information sharing, she stated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

The collaborative provides a shared pool of services such as accounting, payroll, revenue cycle and treasury management, information technology (IT), human resources, compliance, education, and marketing and communications. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Digging into the data around abuse can help hospices understand how to recognize signs of trauma occurring in patients and staff and inform their approaches to training and support, he indicated. Balu Natarajan, chief medical officer of AccentCare. Females make up a large proportion of both hospice patients and the workforce serving them.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Caregivers need practical support and guidance for their experience of taking care of this person, and for their emotional, anticipatory grief they’re feeling. A number of states have also established and funded caregiver counseling programs, disseminated information and added some additional services to their Medicaid coverage.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

We created a small group of people with like-minded interests and had informational Zoom calls. Not to ask for money, but just to let them know how we were responding to the pandemic because they wanted information. Reduced fundraising dollars brought on by the pandemic has led to a considerable drop in revenue for some organizations.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palliative care also enables patients and their families to make informed decisions about end-of-life care. 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. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative? What Makes This A Compassionate Option?

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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. It helps individuals live as comfortably as possible during their illness by managing physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support. Hospice Source’s New CIO Tim Hines has been tapped as the new chief information officer of Hospice Source LLC, a durable medical equipment (DME) company based in Texas.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

There’s opportunity to continue to advocate for regulatory change around that program in some of the [requests for information (RFIs)], so that’s something to watch out for as well. When CMS is looking at things, it’s a need to synthesize all that information under their belt.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. Darrell: Pretty amazing.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The nonprofit’s services include hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support. This puts us at a distinct disadvantage in the current environment where some members of our community, who are well aware of the restrictions on our ability to speak, use the absence of information to fashion their own version of events.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Accepting This Poem by Mark Nepo [link] Saks, N., Wallace, C.L., Donesky, D., & Millic, M. (in in preparation).

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

That is not playing God, it is giving patients what they deserve: complete information and the ability to make choices for themselves. By sharing information about his personal end-of-life journey, former President Carter has helped Americans understand this reality. NHPCO is not in a position to comment on HCA specifically.

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Hope Hospice

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, RN, MN. More information is available at bythebayhealth.org. LARKSPUR, SAN MATEO, DUBLIN, Calif.,

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Consistent exposure to death can lead to stress responses like grief fatigue, nightmares, guilt trips, and survivor’s remorse which should not go ignored. Connect patients, family members, and friends with appropriate resources, like support groups or grief therapy, based on their specific needs.

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

In this proposed rule, CMS announced it is soliciting feedback from providers via two Requests for Information (RFIs) – one on health equity in hospice and the other on hospice utilization, non-hospice spending, ownership, and hospice election. No other area of healthcare delivers such high value for patients and for Medicare.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The immense experiences of suffering, grief, loneliness, and burnout among nurses today call for a reexamination not only of our care delivery systems, but also of the personal frameworks through which we approach our nursing practice. What is spiritual care? Palliative nursing and ‘a deep examination of priorities.’

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

DECEMBER 17, 2023

If you have experienced grief and sorrow yourself, this may help you to recognise and support the suffering of those around you. This is why it is essential to care for the carers, both formally and informally. Finally, a wounded person can be a healer for others, but a healer can also get wounded along the way.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 21, 2023

One such resource is the Family Caregiver Alliance , which offers a wealth of information on care strategies, stress management, and legal issues related to caregiving. The American Cancer Society offers online support groups where caregivers can exchange information, advice, and encouragement.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 4, 2023

They can guide families through their grief, helping them understand and validate their feelings of sadness, anger, or guilt. Furthermore, bereavement support is provided to families, acknowledging the profound grief experienced after a child’s death. They provide a safe space for everyone in the family to express their emotions.

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

Some 12 million patients depend on home care and hospice providers, who depend on NAHC for the best in advocacy, education, and information. The study was funded by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). To learn more, visit nahc.org.

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

billion less than it would have been had they not received hospice care. At any length of stay, hospice care benefits patients, family members, and caregivers, including increased satisfaction and quality of life, improved pain control, reduced physical and emotional distress, and reduced prolonged grief and other emotional distress.

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Palliverse

JULY 20, 2022

Express the grief, and get over the loss, with your teammates. Informal debriefing with colleagues can be a good thing to do. Acknowledging the human feelings we all have felt dealing with the case. Some cases are tragic and sadness to some extent is unavoidable. Talking through difficult cases with each other can be helpful.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

Armed with knowledge, individuals and their loved ones can make informed decisions, ensuring dignity, support, and well-being during the final stages of life. Bereavement specialists offer counseling, support groups, and resources to help loved ones navigate their grief. For more information, please contact us at 760.431.4100

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