Palliative Care News

Diss, Norfolk. Diss Friend's group for EACH pictured from left David Beale, Jenny Bailey, Mary Channell, Merle Channell, Sombra Patrick and Pauline Manson ANL-141103-104857001 In its 18 years a Diss volunteer group has managed to raise 280,000 for East Anglia's Children's Hospices .

The organization provides residential and healthcare service for children and elder citizens.

Ethical issues at end of life are not primarily medical or science issues but social, legal, religious, and cultural.

Staff at a chain of Callington Spar shops will undertake a 300-mile cycle to celebrate their 30th anniversary - and raise money for charity along the way.

A High Peak hospice is part of a group from across the north west which has come together to launch a pioneering TV advertising campaign.

A Berkhamsted husband and wife have signed up to complete the annual Chilterns Cycle Challenge fundraiser for Rennie Grove Hospice Care - on a tandem.

It aims to help avert the need for patients to enter hospital by offering assistance when GP surgeries and other community health care services are closed.

As Dolores Esposito makes the rounds of hospice patients at Holy Redeemer Hospital each Monday with her dog, Daisy, she doesn't tell them why she and the brawny red golden retriever became a pet-therapy team.

Joseph Slade might not think he deserves any medals but the U.S. Veterans Affairs and Cornerstone Hospice and Palliative Care made sure he received the honoraria he earned for his service in the U.S. Navy.

Ultimate Software , a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today that Hospice of Marion County, a Florida-based provider of hospice and healthcare services, is benefiting from Ultimate's people-centric approach to service, rapid deployment of cloud technology, and the UltiPro solution's workforce analytics.

Tanveer P. Mir, MD, MACP, Director of Outpatient Palliative Care at the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, has been named Chair-elect of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians , the nation's largest medical specialty organization.

Actress Bronagh Gallagher, Michael McCafferty, centre, chairperson of trustees, and Dr. Keith Munro, chief executive, beside the Foyle Hospice Memory Tree.

Buy this photo Margaret Manley has discovered a new kind of job satisfaction working as a volunteer nurse at Prospect Hospice Picture: STUART HARRISON AS A growing number of patients require palliative or end-of life care, volunteer nurses are becoming crucial and increasingly sought-out members of the Prospect Hospice team.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The parent company for Hospice Compassus , which once operated in Alabama, has agreed to pay $3.92 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false reimbursement claims to the federal government for patients treated at its hospice facilities, federal authorities announced today.

Hospice of the Valley has achieved Level 1 status from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's We Honor Veterans program.

Maria Dancing Heart Hoaglund shares a review of her first book, "The Last Adventure of Life."

BREAKING awareness campaign will see hospices in Bury and Radcliffe featured on the small screen to bust myths about the care they provide.

Despite the overwhelming assumption that personal visits from health care workers make for a healthier elderly population, a new review of the data suggests there is no evidence to support home care visits offer any benefits.

Peace Hospice Care events manager Pete Watson will be sharing his story of success at a large national conference for professional fundraisers.

Julie Reynolds, the CEO of Cornerstone VNA, is pleased to announce the expansion of its service area to include the greater seacoast communities of Portsmouth, Newington, Newmarket, Greenland and New Castle in New Hampshire, as well as Kittery, Eliot and York in Maine.