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JPlesa posted on December 22, 2008 10:31
The Right to Hospice
Underutilization of hospice services is a public policy issue
December 22, 2008
Cape Cod Times Lead Editorial
Hospi...
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JPlesa posted on September 25, 2008 20:58
JPlesa posted on September 25, 2008 20:35
HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF CAPE COD
INVITES PUBLIC TO PREVIEW
CAPE COD’S FIRST HOSPICE INPATIENT UNIT
McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich Upgrad...
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JPlesa posted on June 26, 2008 20:01
Hospice can smooth a bumpy road
By David W. Rehm
June 23, 2008 6:00 AM
Carol Mithers' May 30 op-ed, "For the dying, less can be more," contains many excellent points about the challenges of caring for sick elders in today's health care system. Unwittingly, it also reinforces some common misperceptions about hospice care that can make the road to needed help seem bumpy indeed.
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JPlesa posted on June 05, 2008 07:04 
HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF CAPE COD EXPANDING MEDICAL CAPACITY OF HOSPICE HOUSE
Sandwich Facility to Become First Cape Cod Hospice Inpatient Unit
HYANNIS – May 8, 2008 – Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod (H &PCCC) is pleased to announce it has received approval from the State of Massachusetts to upgrade the Mary McCarthy Hospice House in Sandwich to become a hospice Inpatient Unit (IPU), similar to an Acute Care/Intensive Care Unit. Once the upgrade is completed and approved, this will be the only such license granted on Cape Cod and only the third in the state. This allows for the provision of a higher level of skilled care at the house, broadening its’ capacity to serve more acute patient needs.
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JPlesa posted on May 07, 2008 10:45
For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End
By JANE GROSS
HANOVER, N.H. — Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fast-paced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages less aggressive — and less costly — care at the end of life.
Grounded in research at the Dartmouth Medical School, slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly, and it educates patients and families how to push back against emergency room trips and hospitalizations designed for those with treatable illnesses, not the inevitable erosion of advanced age.
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JPlesa posted on May 07, 2008 10:27
From The Enterprise - Upper Cape Cod News and Information
Waquoit Couple Changing Way People Look At Hospice
By MICHAEL C. BAILEY
May 1, 2008 - 11:33:56 AM
Say the word “hospice” to most people and they envision a place where people go to die.
Say it to David W. Rehm of Waquoit, the new president and CEO of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod (H&PCCC), and he will tell you otherwise. To him, it is a place where people go to live their remaining days to their fullest.
“There’s something about the word ‘hospice’ that frightens people…people think hospice is for the very end, when there’s no hope,” he said, “but that simply is not true.”
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JPlesa posted on April 13, 2008 20:11
BEING A HOSPICE VOLUNTEER:
LIFE LESSONS OVER CRIBBAGE AND ICE CREAM
HYANNIS – Mar. 19, 2008 - You’ve likely heard of "Tuesdays with Morrie", the runaway best-seller by Mitch Albom about his relationship with Morrie Schwartz. You’re less likely to have heard about "Thursdays with Ben", as retired development officer and hospice volunteer Joe Lucier calls his latest volunteer experience. From June to December of last year, Lucier, age 76, spent every Thursday afternoon playing cribbage with 88-year-old Ben Arnold, in Arnold’s Sagamore Beach home. Arnold had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and Lucier was assigned as his hospice volunteer through Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod.
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JPlesa posted on February 22, 2008 15:16
New CEO happy to step aboard ‘flagship’ health agency
By Linda Riddle
Barnstable Patriot
A childhood exposed to the complexities of bereavement and an adulthood touched by early death have informed the career of David Rehm, who assumed the position of chief executive officer of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod on Feb. 4. He succeeds Marilyn Hannus, who retired after 22 years with the organization.
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JPlesa posted on January 28, 2008 21:23
NEW COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS FORMING
Cape Cod’s Leading Hospice Provider Offers Help toThose Experiencing Grief and/ or Loss
HYANNIS - The Grief Support Center of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod announces new grief and loss support groups forming for winter, 2008. These ongoing groups are open to adults dealing with the loss of a loved one or friend in the past two years, regardless of whether we have served the family as a hospice provider before. Groups are led by licensed clinicians and require advance registration. Sessions are offered at no cost for Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod’s patients and families who have experienced a loss in the past 13 months. There is a $10 per session charge for general community members. However, no one is turned away due to inability to pay.
Ongoing Bereavement Support Groups: Pre-registered only.
Living Through Grief - for adults who have had a loss within the past 2 years
(two separate groups in Hyannis & Falmouth)
HYANNIS
Every Wednesday, Beginning Feb. 6th 4:30 – 6:00 pm
at the Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod Hyannis office; 765 Attucks Lane (off Independence Drive)
For more info or to register, call facilitator Barbara Nordstorm, MSA, LICSW at 508-957-0343
OR
FALMOUTH
Every Thursday, Beginning Feb. 7th 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
at the Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod Falmouth office – 359 Main St., Falmouth
For more info or to register, call facilitator Sarah Joslin, MSW, LICSW at 508-957-0200, then press 7, then press 411, then #.
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Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod is the area’s first non-profit organization specializing in expert care, comfort and compassion for those in our community living with serious illness. Founded in 1981, it is unique in its exclusive dedication to providing a wide range of end-of-life programs and services. For more information call 508-957-0200 or go to www.hospicecapecod.org.
JPlesa posted on January 14, 2008 10:57
NEW CEO NAMED
TO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF CAPE COD
David W. Rehm of the Washington Home and Community Hospices to Lead the Cape’s Premier Hospice Organization
HYANNIS – Dec. 19, 2007 – Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod (H &PCCC) is pleased to announce that David W. Rehm has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer and is slated to begin sometime in early February. He succeeds Marilyn Hannus, who is retiring after 22 years with H & PCCC. The organization is Cape Cod’s longest serving and only freestanding non-profit hospice.
“I’m excited about the opportunity to provide the next generation of leadership to an organization with such a proud heritage of service to the Cape Cod community”, Mr. Rehm said. “My wife and I are delighted to be returning home to Southern New England.”
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JPlesa posted on December 31, 2007 11:20
A life dedicated to dignified dying
By MARILYN HANNUS
December 31, 2007 6:00 AM
As chief executive officer of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, I've had the rare privilege to experience a career path that has followed the growth of the hospice field on Cape Cod from its grass-roots beginning. Now, as I enter retirement this week, I am moved to reflect on the state of the hospice movement here, how it has grown and changed over the years. I find this appropriate for the season — a time for reflection and reassessment, as well as much gratitude and hope.
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JPlesa posted on December 16, 2007 10:40
Hospice: An Overlooked Option
The vast majority of Americans forgo valuable end-of-life care
By Dennis Thompson
Posted 12/16/07
SUNDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Hospice care helps terminally ill patients prepare for death, treating their symptoms and pain and preparing them -- and their families -- for the end.
The patients maintain their dignity and some semblance of control over their life. Their families receive counseling to help them come to terms with their impending loss.
It's humane. It's caring. It's thoughtful.
Why, then, do so few Americans chose to receive hospice care, even though Medicare covers the expense?
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JPlesa posted on November 09, 2007 18:32
YOUR HOSPICE BENEFIT: PLANNING THE JOURNEY
By Susan Garcia Strauss; R.N., C.H.C.E., B.S.
Vice President of Clinical Operations
Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod
Falmouth, Sandwich, Bourne and Mashpee Enterprises, Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
We are used to preparing for the milestones of our lives. Going on vacation, buying a new house, starting a family – all require extensive planning in order to do it right. But how much do we plan for the most major transitions of our lives, namely, the bookends of birth and death? None of us have any choice or influence on who will be with us when we are born, but we can choose who can support and comfort us as we come to the end of our lives.
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JPlesa posted on November 09, 2007 18:04 
Supporting spirit in the final stages of life
Conference helps clergy of all faiths reach out to the terminally ill
By Johanna Crosby
STAFF WRITER CAPE COD TIMES
November 01, 2007 6:00 AM
SANDWICH - Sharon Ferraro of Bourne, a medium, wants to be more compassionate and help alleviate her clients' fear of death.
Pat Hart of Elder Services of Cape Cod hopes to feel more comfortable talking to people about end-of-life issues.
And interfaith minister Kathleen Geagan is seeking new ways to connect spiritually to those who are dying and "recharge my feeling and passion for this work."
They were among 40 or so spiritual caregivers - clergy, lay ministers, hospice chaplains and volunteers, parish nurses, outreach workers and pastoral visitation teams - who attended an all-day educational program on "Spiritual Care at the End of Life" last Thursday at Corpus Christi Church in Sandwich. Sponsored by Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, the Cape Cod Council of Churches and the Massachusetts Compassionate Care Coalition, the pilot program was designed to help participants increase their knowledge and skills so they can more effectively provide care and support to patients and families at the end of life.
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