News From Global Partners in Care
Conference Attendees
Enjoy Breakfast with
Global Partners in Care
Support Scholarships for
Nurses and Social Workers
in Africa
NHPCO's Management
and Leadership
Conference (MLC)
attendees were invited to a
special breakfast hosted
by Global Partners in Care
before the opening
Global Partners in Care team and
Foundation board chair present
plenary session on April
the 2015 Global Partnership Award
30. Attendees were
to staff from Samaritan Healthcare
and Hospice.
welcomed by leadership
from NHPCO, the Foundation Board and Global
Partners in Care, and learned about the many
successes of the organization since their rebranding
and expansion one year ago. Read more...
As part of our mission to expand the availability of
hospice and palliative care in Africa and globally,
Global Partners in Care has a special scholarship fund
to support the African Palliative Care Association
(APCA) in providing education scholarships to further
the knowledge and skill of African nurses and social
workers in the provision of palliative care.
In many African nursing and social work courses, there
is no training which exposes the students to palliative
care. Formal training in palliative care is greatly needed
to provide nurses and social workers with the much
needed palliative care skills to handle patients with life
threatening illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and cancer.
Read more...
US and Ugandan Hospices
Celebrated for Outstanding
Partnership
Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice
Licensed Social Workers Sherri Brake
and Susan Cedrone show an excited
group of children their photo on a
digital camera.
Global Partners
in Care presents
the 2015 Global
Partnership Award
to Samaritan
Healthcare and
Hospice of New
Jersey and
Kawempe Home
Care of Uganda.
Samaritan Healthcare and
Hospice is over 7,000 miles away from Kawempe Home
Care of Uganda yet the two organizations are partners
in caring. Global Partners in Care presented the 2015
Global Partnership Award to the two organizations
at NHPCO's annual Management and Leadership
Conference, an event that brought over 1,200 hospice
and palliative care leaders to the Washington, DC area.
Read more...
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