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!
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Hospice Waivers Under the COVID-19 Emergency
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an influx of regulatory waivers, flexibilities, and recommendations continue to be put into place. These changes have been established to ensure the necessary care capacity and the safety of all involved. These changes are temporary, to last through the time of this formal public health emergency. As of March 30,…
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Episode 12: Jim Benuska on Funeral Home practice and celebrations of life during the pandemic
Jim Benuska works as a funeral home director at Tezak Funeral Home in Joliet, IL. He joins the Hospice Chaplaincy hosts to talk about funeral home practice during COVID-19. With the COVID-19 outbreak across the United States, funeral directors face challenging times as visitations, funerals and burial services are restricted. In just the past month,…
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Hospice Chaplain IDT Notes
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The Art of Hospice Chaplaincy during COVID-19
Saul Ebema, DMin. Setting the Scene Mrs. Hernandez’s three adult children are confronted by the nursing home’s no visit policy, shortly after her health turned for the worse and seeming imminent. Hospice nurse, Josh*, isn’t struggling to manage his own fear around his work with COVID-19 hospice patients; he is experiencing distress because his mother,…
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Episode 11: Allison Nichols on COVID-19 and Hospital Emergency Room Social work
Allison is a licensed Medical Social Worker currently working in the emergency room of a major hospital in Chicago. She sheds some light on the impact of COVID-19 on her practice. The lack of widespread screening means the coronavirus may well be present in countless hospital wards without anyone realizing it. Accordingly, many emergency-room workers…
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