PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN SPIRITUAL CARE AT THE END OF LIFE
Hospice Chaplain Specialty Certificate Training
The curriculum for this course builds an essential knowledge base for professionals who deliver spiritual care in a hospice context, in order to improve the quality of care delivered to patients and families and meet accreditation requirements for expertise in the area. The course is a fully online, text based program, delivered in a continuously available and easily accessible format that allows students greater flexibility in balancing work responsibilities with furthering their education.
To register for the courses, just click on ‘SIGNUP’.

If you are a hospice chaplain in need of polishing up your visit documentation, this is a webinar for you. This webinar will be on TBD
The most scrutinized area for hospices by the U.S. centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is patient eligibility.
While most hospices admit eligible patients to hospice care, they often don’t prove eligibility with their documentation. Yet that is the primary area at risk for payment by CMS.
Polishing up on your visit documentation has never been this vital. You can sign up for this webinar TODAY!
Latest Posts
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Episode 40: Alexandra Donavan On the Intersection Between Poetry, Chaplaincy and Hospice
In this week’s episode, Saul and Joe talk with Alexandra Donovan. Alexandra is a poet, teacher, hospice chaplain, workshop and retreat leader, and grant-writer based in the Los Angeles, CA, and Fort Collins, CO areas. Her first chapbook, Mother Stump, is now available from Yak Press. Alexandra has taught for California Poets in the Schools,…
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Poem: Portrait of a Mother and Daughter
By Alexandra Donavan
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Episode 39: A Conversation with Veronica Drase, MSW, LCSW
In Today’s episode, Saul and Joe are joined in the studio by Veronica Drase. Veronica works as a social worker with Angels Grace Hospice in Bolingbrook, IL. In this episode they talk about her upbringing and journey to hospice social work. At Angel’s Grace Hospice, Veronica helps clients and their families navigate planning for end-of-life…
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The Hospice Chaplain and Patient Confidentiality
By Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, MDiv, RN This is an excerpt of an article by this author posted on this site a while back but a powerful reminder.
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Four stages of death affecting the hospice patient
Dr. Saul Ebema





