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A New Law Requires Hospitals to Notify Patients of Outpatient Status

The Notice Act closes a Medicare loophole that left many families in debt

An 85-year-old woman named Elizabeth Cannon spent six and a half days in a hospital after being injured in a fall. Later, she transferred to a nursing home for five months to receive rehabilitation treatment. Cannon assumed that her hospital stay and nursing … Continue reading

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Pilot Program Allies Paramedics and Hospice to Reduce Traumatic ER Visits

Partnership between paramedics and hospice is reducing unnecessary hospital visits for hospice patients

A pilot program that started in Texas and has since spread to California is significantly reducing unnecessary hospital visits for patients enrolled in hospice. Ventura County’s 911 hospice program is one of several recent state-approved programs aimed at respecting hospice … Continue reading

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Why is Death Midwifery Important? An Interview with Pashta MaryMoon, Part One

A Canadian Death Midwife shares a lifetime of insight

Today in this interview, SevenPonds speaks with Pashta MaryMoon, Death Midwife at Journeys Beyond, and co-founder of CINDEA (Canadian Integrated Network of Death Education and Alternatives). Pashta lives and works in Victoria, BC, Canada.  Juniper: What is a Death Midwife? … Continue reading

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An 

Amputee Palliative Physician Discusses What Really Matters at the End of Life

BJ Miller suggests that including life's simple pleasures alongside symptom management is urgently needed in palliative care

In his 2015 Ted Talk, palliative physician BJ Miller asserts that life’s simple pleasures are more powerfully healing on an emotional and psychological level than symptom management as people navigate their final days. He recounts an incident in his early twenties … Continue reading

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A Few More Days of Purpose

After a career in nursing, Martha Keochareon spent her last days teaching nursing students how to care for cancer patients in palliative treatment

Sometimes people donate their bodies to science after death, but Martha Keochareon had offered herself as an instructional tool during her last two months of life. In November of 2013, Ms. Keochareon called Kelly Keane, a counselor at Holyoke Community College … Continue reading

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God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet

Dr. Victoria Sweet shares how medieval medicine and slow medicine can be used in modern hospitals to create life-changing experiences from which both doctors and patients can learn to grow

What is the most efficient strategy of providing health care? Should quality food and one-on-on doctor-patient care be replaced with high tech machines and fast-paced diagnostics? What does it truly take to turn a hospital into a community? God’s Hotel … Continue reading

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