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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

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. The nonprofit health system serves Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

We have a wide ranging conversation that touches on how to place aging, disability, and multimorbidity in the context of serious illness conversations, “striving toward normal,” stoicism, existentialism, psychedelics, the goals of medicine, medical aid in dying and more. Bill: Thank you. Brad: I completely forgot about that.

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To See Her Daughter’s Marriage

The Bucket-List Blog

Our chief medical director, Dr. Hanan Budeiri (known to all of us as Dr. B) donated refreshments for a reception. Nancy’s mother died peacefully the next morning, knowing her daughter treasured her enough to make sure she was present at such a key life milestone. Our thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.

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Using Ring Theory Paradigm

Hospice of the North Coast

Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. Daniel Miller, M.D., Thank you.

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Using Ring Theory Paradigm When Dealing With a Terminal Illness

Hospice of the North Coast

Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. Daniel Miller, M.D.,

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.