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Dementia center in Ocala receives donation of laptops, books WCJB-20 ABC, Gainesville/Ocala, FL; by Radaysha Robinson and WCJB Staff; 9/8/26 A dementia education and care center in Marion County is getting new resources to help families navigate the disease. Congresswoman Kat Cammack stopped by the Empath Dementia Education and Care Center to donate laptops and books to help with dementia education on Tuesday. The center opened in March as a one-stop location for people living with dementia, along with their families and caregivers. It offers an adult day center, caregiver education classes, and programs designed to help people better understand how dementia can affect communication and behavior.

24 hour home care to lay off over 700 employees Home Health Care News; by Morgan Gonzales; 9/4/26 24 Hour Home Care plans to lay off 738 employees, according to a California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filing. The layoffs are scheduled to take effect on Sept. 15, according to the filing. 24 Hour Home Care said the layoffs were the result of Health Net’s planned discontinuation of Personal Care and Homemaker Services (PCHS), an optional Community Support under the insurer’s Medi-Cal managed care plans, effective Jan. 1, 2027. Health Net is a California health insurer and managed-care organization.

Former VA nurse charged with intentionally abusing hospice patient News 8 Now, La Crosse/Toma, WI; by Sam Shilts; 9/10/26 A former registered nurse at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center faces a felony charge after prosecutors say she intentionally removed oxygen from a dying hospice patient, causing him great bodily harm. Beth Marie Holtz, 53, of New Berlin, was charged Wednesday in Monroe County court with intentionally abusing a patient causing great bodily harm. An arrest warrant was issued the same day. According to the criminal complaint, the incident occurred Aug. 17, 2025, involving a 75-year-old patient who had been admitted to hospice with pulmonary fibrosis and had a medical order for continuous oxygen supply.

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CMS posts revised Model Election Statement and Addendum CMS; compiled by Guest Editor, Judi Lund Person; 9/10/26 CMS has posted the revised model election statement and addendum to the CMS website, which includes language for the mandatory addendum effective October 1, 2026. Hospice providers can use these model forms as the guide to the revised form. Pay particular attention to using the forms with an August 2026 date.

"Let there be peace on earth," sung at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum by the Young People's Chorus of New York City, for Pope Francis and other world interfaith leaders YouTube; excerpt from televised global service in the suriving, deepest basement of the Twin Towers; 9/25/15On September 25, 2015, Pope Francis led a profound interfaith prayer service at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City. Held in the subterranean Foundation Hall against the solemn backdrop of the World Trade Center’s original subterranean wall that survived the attacks, the historic gathering brought together around 500 guests and leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions to promote global peace and healing. The emotional climax of the service occurred when the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, comprised of more than 60 diverse teenage singers, delivered a moving rendition of "Let There Be Peace on Earth," echoing a message of unity through the sacred, historic space.

A new market for AI: preparing families for hospice care LeadingAge; by Cast; 9/9/26 Artificial intelligence tools can help family caregivers to better understand and locate hospice services. While aging services organizations are tapping artificial intelligence (AI) tools to serve their staff, communities, and residents, AI can fill gaps for a different audience—family caregivers who need education and support as their loved one transitions to hospice. ...

End-of-life care behind bars: regular reviews of articles and reports on key issues in prison hospice and palliative care.End-of-Life Care Behind Bars - A Periodic Literature Search; September 2026 issue Highlights: Prison palliative care and compassionate release should be treated as interconnected rather than competing mechanisms; the constitutional crisis of end-of-life care for incarcerated individuals; prison officers matter in end-of-life care; community hospice engagement in end-of-life care in prisons; person-first language in correctional healthcare – two perspectives; critical reappraisal of policy and practice in correctional healthcare; conducting ethical health research in prisons

Don’t let ‘bad actors’ sour the value of caring for California seniors at home The Press-Enterprise; by John Fund; 9/8/26 We’re hearing a lot about fraud in federal programs lately. The new Ground Zero for fraud is in California, where a perfect storm of bad government has formed in the last few years. The worst cases involve Medicare and Medicaid. ... I’ve felt personal pain and anger over these types of scandals. A few years ago, my 87-year-old father in Sacramento mistakenly and prematurely went into hospice which meant Medicare payments for his ailments were foregone. ... Legitimate hospice remains important for people who actually need it. The fraud problem puts that care at risk.

Memory Care: Hospice of the Valley awarded grant to support first-of-its-kind in-home dementia program Lovin' Life, Tuscon, AZ; 9/6/26 Hospice of the Valley has been awarded a $100,000 Mercy C.A.R.E.S. Community Reinvestment Grant to support its Supportive Care for Dementia Program across Maricopa, Pinal and Pima Counties. This unique service is the only in-home program in Arizona delivering clinical and emotional care to support families caring for a loved one with any stage of dementia. Specific features of the program include in-home guidance and custom care plans from an experienced dementia team; free family caregiver education and support; low-cost in-home respite care through the RISE student engagement partnership; and 24-hour access to clinical advice and care coordination.

Your culture isn't what you say—it's what you tolerate | part one Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN); by Chris Comeaux; 9/926 Your organization’s culture isn’t defined by the values hanging on the wall—it’s defined by the behaviors leaders allow to continue. In Part One of Your Culture Isn't What You Say—It's What You Tolerate, host Chris Comeaux sits down with Tom Foster, President of Foster Learning Corporation and author of Premeditated Culture: The Consequences of What We Tolerate, for a compelling examination of how organizational culture is actually created.  Foster challenges a common leadership assumption: culture begins with defining what an organization believes. Instead, he argues that leaders should start by identifying the specific behaviors they want to see—because beliefs, values, customs, and ultimately culture become visible through what people actually do.