ON OUR
COVER:
Hospice Facts and Figures: A Six-Year Snapshot
NewsLine has compiled some of the key findings from the last six editions of
“NHPCO Facts and Figures: Hospice Care in America” to give members a broader
view of hospice’s continuing evolution. (Be sure to also see the story on page 7
about a lesser-known report than can help in the management of your program.)
PLUS:
Serving Veterans:
Does Storytelling
Help or Hinder?
Engaging and
Educating a Mobile
Workforce
Does sharing their
military experiences
at the end of life help
Veterans address
potential stressors
and ease life closure?
Does it also help their
loved ones? This article
reports on findings
from an 18-month pilot
study conducted by
Delaware Hospice Inc.
and the University of
Delaware that sheds
valuable light.
When your workforce
is a mobile one,
how can you make
education both
engaging and costeffective? Educator
Erika Tedesco
discusses the approach
being used by
Hosparus, along with
a few of the newer
technologies that are
helping to improve the
staff’s online learning
experience.
MODEL TEAMS
Short Takes:
“As the medical needs
of hospice patients
become more complex,
we run the risk of
focusing on symptom
management and losing
sight of the importance
of interdisciplinary
care,” says NCHPP
Nurse Section leader,
Teresa Wheatley. In this
article, she discusses
MODEL TEAMS, a
concept that was
adopted by Hospice
and Community Care
in 2005 to strengthen
interdisciplinary
teamwork and help
ensure holistic care.
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to MLC
A Message From Don
Member News
and Notes
Compliance Tip
Videos Worth
Watching
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NewsLine - March 2013