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VNS Health Expands Hospice Education for Underserved Asian Americans

Hospice News

Bilingual staff at the centers host community engagement activities and hold seminars explaining the nature of hospice. It’s really having the team approach with our nurses, social workers, providers and counselors so that people don’t feel like they’re alone. There’s just so much we can do together for them.”

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Discrimination Fears Deter LGBTQ+ Patients From Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

Even the phrase “cultural competence” itself may be an oversimplification, according to Joseph Bleiberg, lead licensed social worker with the hospice care team at VNS Health. All staff have ongoing training and workshops around cultural awareness and humility,” Bleiberg Hospice News.

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Care Dimensions CEO: New Hospice Clinicians Seek Mentorship

Hospice News

That helps relieve some of the work that we put on our nurses and social workers. It was very much centered around Massachusetts, but we now have people in other parts of the country attending webinars, seminars and teaching programs. We’ve increased the number of licensed practical nurses.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

It began as the Foundation for Hospices in sub-Saharan Africa, a not-for-profit based out of New York, following a professional seminar tour of hospices in Zimbabwe and South Africa by U.S. Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. hospice leaders.

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Exploring the Big Three Fears of Dying

Death and Dying Chronicles

I leave you now with something Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a pioneer of hospice, said once at a seminar I attended, a woman who spent her career talking with, and advocating for, the dying people she met, in order to better understand and treat the needs of the terminally ill.

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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. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. J Palliat Med. 2021;24(11):1598-1602. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0240