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VNS Health Expands Hospice Education for Underserved Asian Americans

Hospice News

VNS Health has developed community education programs to boost awareness and hospice utilization among Chinese populations in New York City. It’s important that you have staff who speak their own language and dialects, because even just in the Chinese language there are so many different dialects,” Lin told Hospice News. “We

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Discrimination Fears Deter LGBTQ+ Patients From Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

“These are really difficult conversations to have with anyone, but there’s been so much trauma in the LGBTQ+ community that providers need to have a real understanding about,” Fitting told Hospice News. The hospice, home health and palliative care provider serves close to 40,000 patients.

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Care Dimensions CEO: New Hospice Clinicians Seek Mentorship

Hospice News

Hospice provider Care Dimensions has tapped Dr. Stephanie Patel as its new CEO, upon the retirement of previous top executive Patricia Ahern. Care Dimensions is the largest hospice provider in Massachusetts. Additionally, Patel is a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and speaks locally and nationally.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.” So, these U.S.

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Exploring the Big Three Fears of Dying

Death and Dying Chronicles

Hospice experience has shown me that there are at least three looming fears one faces when given a terminal diagnosis. Hospice offers experts who deal with death and dying every day. Your hospice doctor will discuss with you any feelings of depression which may be a result of medications, your condition, or life circumstances.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. The last case of anger that I ineptly dealt with was we were delivering in some ways good but bad news, that somebody was graduating from hospice. J Palliat Med. 2021;24(11):1598-1602. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0240