The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual physical examinations covered under the new health care law, administration officials said. The move...
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Agathe von Trapp [pictured above], the eldest daughter of the von Trapp family made famous in “The Sound of Music,” who took exception to the way her father was portrayed, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She...
Read moreWhen a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” [it was] dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation...
Read moreThis week begins the celebration of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. Hanukkah is the celebration of two miracles that occurred in the year 167 BCE. The Second Temple in Jerusalem was under control of the Seleucid Greek dynasty, whose ruler was...
Read moreUpon Jacob’s return from Haran, from his father-in-law Laban’s house, he realizes it is time to confront his brother Esau, whom he had slighted over 20 years earlier. When Jacob left Esau, he was set on killing him when their father...
Read moreStudy: N.J. cancer patients likelier to die in hospital: Cancer patients in New Jersey are more likely than patients elsewhere to spend their dying days in a hospital receiving aggressive care such as chemotherapy, tube-feeding and breathing...
Read moreBy Marilyn Henry At a recent shiva call, I listened as a mourner told the sad story of her sister’s deterioration. “The hospice came in on Tuesday and she died Thursday.” This is the traditional narrow view: that a hospice is a type of care that...
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Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks, Calif. home for complications resulting from dementia. The 76-year-old Anderson was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in...
Read moreBy Paula Span for the New York Times It’s difficult for physicians to determine with much precision how long anyone with a terminal disease can expect to live, but it’s particularly challenging when the disease is advanced dementia. “People with...
Read moreStein Hospice Nurses discuss hospice, what it means to them and why they feel so passionate about their work.
Read moreStein Hospice and the Wilf Campus community welcome Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner. Rabbi Kinzbrunner served as a hospice chaplain and bereavement services manager with VITAS Hospice for over four years before joining our team. He has lectured...
Read moreExcellent piece by Atul Gawande, MD in the New Yorker, Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on...
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