Key Practices for Managing the Impact of Grief Key Practice 4: Support Special Populations Children, teens, people living alone—particularly the isolated elderly—and those for whom grief becomes depression are all specialized groups that may need additional support and attention as…
Key Practices for Managing the Impact of Grief Anewalt, Snyder Cowan, Balster, and other grief professionals offer a range of recommendations for helping families, communities, and healthcare providers effectively manage their grief and bereavement during this unprecedented crisis—from online funeral…
The Grief We Feel: COVID-19’s Impact on Families, Communities, and Healthcare Providers “We have lost the world we knew—our assumptive world,” says Balster. “We have lost many of our traditions, rituals, and expectations—a million little griefs. People say they just…
Five Ways Hospice-Based Grief Experts Can Support Patients and Families in the COVID-19 Era Click on the image or the PDF to download the white paper. Complex Grief, Bereavement Support—COVID-19Sheds Light on a New Era of Complex Grief and WhatHospices…
ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE, TRANSPARENCY TO ENSURE QUALITY HOSPICE CARE FOR ALL Providing all terminally ill patients with compassionate, quality care at the end of life was the vision of Dame Saunders and is the commitment not-for-profit hospices have made to…
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PATIENT CARE QUALITY Less Training for Hospice Care Providers Other tactics for reducing expenditures at the for-profit hospices, according to the research, included hiring fewer professionally trained staff members, recruiting new graduates who would work for lower…
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PATIENT CARE QUALITY Recruiting healthier patients Research studies by The Washington Post, the federal government and other organizations indicate that some for-profit hospices are enrolling patients who are not terminal.14 This allows these hospices to collect the…
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PATIENT CARE QUALITY The Live-Discharge Rate According to The Washington Post, which has published an extensive series of investigative reports under the title, “The Business of Dying,” more than one in three patients are being discharged from…
TIME TO EDUCATE, ADVOCATE AND ACT TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF HOSPICE Click on the image or the PDF to download the white paper. Hospice patients are among the most vulnerable in healthcare today. As they face the end of…
Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN) and National Hospice Cooperative (NHC) have formed a joint venture partnership that will allow each organization to leverage their respective strengths to provide support to not-for-profit hospice and palliative care providers. In today’s environment there are…