‘Small but significant’ keys to amplifying hospice grief support

‘Small but significant’ keys to amplifying hospice grief support 
Hospice News; by Holly Vossel; 1/29/25 
Grief support service lines can be an important pathway for hospices to reach communities outside of their patient populations. ... Grieving processes are multifaceted and unique to each individual, and hospices’ bereavement models need to be conceptualized around this notion, according to Keely Rhiannon, lead grief counselor at Michigan-based Angela Hospice. ... A key to developing sustainable grief referral relationships is understanding what each organization has to offer and adapting services to fill gaps of unmet need, according to Dr. Micki Burns, CEO of Judi’s House and the Judith Ann Griese (JAG) Institute, and Lauren Ross, its director of clinical programs. 
Editor's note: The CMS Hospice Conditions of Participation (CoPs) require each hospice to provide bereavement/grief support to patients' families, both before the death and after. The CMS Hospice CoPs identify "bereavement" and/or "grief" 155 times. For the significance of bereavement services, visit the article we posted 1/30/25, "The iatrogenic consequences of medicalising grief: Resetting the research agenda." For grief resources designed for hospice services' serious illness-hospice-bereavement needs and branded to your hospice, visit our sponsor Composing Life Out of Loss.