Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation that would take some stress off palliative care physicians who guide patients through their final hours, as well as the grieving families they leave behind. Continue reading
New law will fast-track completion of hospice death certificates
Tallahassee, Fla.—During the Florida Hospice and Palliative Care Association’s (FHPCA) fourth quarter Board Meeting at Hilton Bayfront in St. Petersburg, Hope Healthcare President and CEO Samira K. Beckwith presented Senator Denise Grimsley with the Hospice Champion Award. FHPCA recognized Senator Grimsley’s role…
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Every year FHPCA asks the Governor’s office to declare November Hospice and Palliative Care Month which he has done for 2025. Thank you Gov. DeSantis for your support of hospice!
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Today’s onboarding isn’t just about paperwork and policies — it’s about creating momentum, building connection, and accelerating performance. This dynamic, practical webinar will explore how to transform onboarding from a passive checklist into a powerful engagement and performance driver. You will discover how to shape the new-hire experience with intention, connection, and accountability — right from the first interaction. Whether onboarding in-person or remotely, you'll walk away with a fresh mindset to turn your onboarding into a high-impact experience that fuels retention, culture, and performance.
This webinar will review all aspects of the hospice volunteer coordinator’s role and requirements. It will present volunteer tracking and reporting requirements, volunteer recruitment, training, education, and maintenance of volunteer personnel files. It will also review relevant best practices, including participation in IDG and using volunteers with patients and within the agency. FAQs related to volunteers and the volunteer coordinator role will also be addressed.
In order to make responsiveness to patients, clients, families, and coworkers expected and routine, you have to rely on choices your staff members make in each moment of communication. And because you can’t be everywhere at once, you need tools that provide accountability and support to help others act on their best intentions. The program will include:
-Three factors that influence discretionary effort and how to use them to inspire colleagues
-Best practices of leaders who inspire and energize people about compassionate, reassuring, and personal care
-How to overcome the obstacles to consistent rounding with staff
-Onboarding techniques to take new colleagues across the first two years when they are at high risk of jumping ship
People are multidimensional. Understanding how various individuals see and interact with the world can significantly help with providing higher levels of care. With this understanding you can skillfully work with, and alongside, those perceived to be “challenging” instead of experiencing them as “difficult.” This webinar will focus on working with various specific personalities by providing information and skills to assist all team members.
Helping patients, families, and referral sources move through the process that will lead them to discussing hospice and accessing hospice benefits starts with recognizing barriers like anticipatory grief, fear, denial, etc. Understanding the right approach, using the best phraseology, and employing the right tools are key to eliminating barriers. This webinar will provide successful approaches, tools, and phraseology to help you serve more people, grow, and give the gift of hospice.
Healthcare workers, especially nurses and frontline staff, face a disproportionately high risk of workplace violence. Healthcare professionals face increasing challenges with patient aggression, emotional distress, and workplace tension. De-escalation is essential in healthcare because it directly impacts the safety, emotional well-being, and quality of care for both patients and healthcare professionals.
This webinar will equip you with practical, evidence-based de-escalation techniques to enhance safety, build trust, and improve patient outcomes. Join us to learn how to recognize early signs of escalation and when de-escalation will not work, how to communicate with empathy and authority, and how to manage high-stress situations.
This insightful and practical webinar is designed specifically for hospice and home care agencies looking to create and implement high-impact PIPs that meet CMS requirements and lead to real, measurable improvements in patient care, compliance, and organizational outcomes. You’ll learn how to go beyond using just QAPI data, survey feedback, and clinical metrics by identifying overarching program issues, setting clear goals, tracking outcomes, and driving meaningful, measurable improvement in your hospice.
Artificial intelligence is arriving just as our aging population is driving increasing demand for in-home and hospice care. Understanding how AI works can help you be comfortable and confident in this new environment. This webinar will briefly cover the origin and explosive growth of AI capabilities and then highlight where and how these tools can be introduced to adult-care environments as a teammate and support.
There are a range of machine-learning solutions, from recognizing health and behavior patterns, to making predictions on future health needs, to supporting communication and information needs, and as a partner in planning and brainstorming interventions, activities, and adaptations. Medical and support staff are under constant pressure to provide more to more people in less time. Artificial intelligence teammates can summarize information and suggest research-based ideas to reduce the complexity so staff can focus on the patient.
Preparing family caregivers of terminally ill patients for death and bereavement can diminish uncertainty, enhance their biopsychosocial-spiritual well-being, and shape patient outcomes. Applying the stress-coping model, this interactive, case-based webinar will address best practice strategies in assessing and advancing three dimensions of caregiver preparation for the dying/post-death experience. This skill-advancing session will outline family caregiver-centered integration methods for each dimension of in-home care settings. Participants will be able to apply the model and strategies to practice analyzing case studies of terminally ill patients and their family caregivers.
