New research published in the March issue of Health Affairs found that hospice enrollment saves money for Medicare and improves care quality for Medicare beneficiaries with a number of different lengths of services. The National Hospice and...
Read moreThe Essence of Hospice Work
The 30 second video above captures the essence of hospice work. It is from a Johnson & Johnson initiative to promote the nursing profession. It features a hospice nurse reflecting on her work.
Read moreHospice Cards from Hallmark?
Hallmark Greeting Cards for the ‘Final Goodbye’ By Liz Neporent via Good Morning America During the two months that Regina Holliday’s husband, Fred, was hospitalized with cancer, he received a tower of “Get Well Soon” cards...
Read moreMixed Results from New Hospice Study
More people over 65 are dying in hospice care and fewer are dying in hospitals. But this good news is tempered by a very different story. People are also being hospitalized more frequently in the last three months of their lives, are more likely...
Read moreTeaching Children About Death
This moving video begs the question about how to broach the subject of death with children. When the actor who played Mr. Hopper on Sesame Street, Will Lee, died, the Sesame Street people decided to let the character die too, and used it as an...
Read more“The Bitter End”…NPR’s Radio Lab Tackles End of Life
We turn to doctors to save our lives — to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what...
Read moreNurse on Hospice Becomes Educator (video)
With less than two months to live, Martha Keochareon teaches students about cancer and dying.
Read moreHarp Therapy at Stein Hospice
The harp, with its soothing timbre and spiritual associations, has been revered as a healing instrument by many cultures for thousands of years. Over the past two decades there has been a renewed interest in the use of the harp in therapeutic...
Read moreRabbis Spurn Assisted Suicide but Support Hospice
Published in the New Jersey Jewish News, featuring Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner, chaplain at the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living, republished here — Rabbis across the denominational spectrum are opposed to a proposed state bill that...
Read moreThe Dynamic Duo
The administrative dynamic duo:Gail & Janice keep Stein Hospice on a steady course
Read moreGeorge McGovern Used Hospice
Longtime former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in a historic landslide, has moved into hospice care near his home in South Dakota, his family said Monday. “He’s...
Read moreNew Initiatives Press Docs To Talk About End-of-Life
Three years ago, at the height of the debate over health care reform, there was an uproar over a voluntary provision that encouraged doctors to discuss with Medicare patients the kinds of treatments they would want as they neared the end of life...
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