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.
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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 37: Danelle Shoemaker On Being a Hospice Chaplain
Danelle Shoemaker currently works as a hospice chaplain at Mt. Carmel Hospice in Columbus, Ohio. As a hospice chaplain, Danelle provides emotional and spiritual counseling to patients and their families. Her other duties on the job include submitting written reports on patient interactions and acting as liaisons between members of the clergy and hospice patients.…
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What are the spiritual needs at the end of life?
By Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D.
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Episode 36: A Conversation with Tammy Wurm on Agnostic Humanism and Hospice Chaplaincy
In this episode, Saul and Joe talk with Rev. Tammy Wurm. Tammy currently works as a Hospice Chaplain in Oregon and also as a death café educator. Prior to being a hospice chaplain, she worked in a hospital for 39 years as a nurses assistant. In 2017, she completed her twelve month course in Interfaith…
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Episode 35: Saul and Joe answer listener questions
The questions this episode addresses include. How has the covid-19 pandemic affected you? How has the pandemic affected the practice of hospice chaplaincy? Where do you see hospice Chaplaincy going after Covid? How does staff support look like in this time? A talk about helping those who are spiritual not religious and also those who…
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Episode 35: Marellen Mayers On Woman Priesthood and Hospice Chaplaincy
Marellen Mayers was ordained in a reform movement in the Catholic Church called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. An international organization which ordained its first group of women in 2002 on the Danube River. Several valid male bishops of the Roman Catholic church participated in the ordination. RCWP serves in faith communities in Europe, South Africa, South…





