How to Build a World-Class Hospice Volunteer Program
Great volunteers are essential for exceptional hospice care, but building a world-class volunteer program requires strategy, tactics, and a change in mindset for some.
Great volunteers are essential for exceptional hospice care, but building a world-class volunteer program requires strategy, tactics, and a change in mindset for some.
Providing care in the right place, at the right time, and by the right provider can only be possible by working together across the health care continuum—and it starts with clear communication and education.
For many of us, the opportunity to journey with others as they face serious illness and the end of life in their own unique way is what drew us to hospice in the first place. Will the need to report the same data on every patient mean that individualized care must go by the wayside? Let’s explore that concern a bit.
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When was the last time you spent time [...]
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