San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care Company Profile
San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care has earned the community’s respect over the past 29 years by providing exceptional care to those in need. The organization established the County’s first hospice program in 1977; and, has added comprehensive palliative care services over the past six years in response to the needs of the community. Palliative care services include a licensed Home Health program, physician consultation services, comprehensive bereavement support and education, a specialized children’s program, and the nation’s largest physician specialty training program through the Center for Palliative Studies. Today, San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care has become one of the largest home care hospices in the country and is a nationally recognized leader in hospice care, education and research.
Location
4311 Third Avenue
San Diego
California
92103
United States of America
Contact
Phone: 619-688-1600
Email: info@sdhospice.org
News Articles
Philanthropist Conrad T. Prebys Invests in Compassion with $1 Million Gift to San Diego Hospice
Generous donation will support those in need of hospice and palliative care SAN DIEGO, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Local businessman and philanthropist Conrad T. Prebys has made...
Evolving roles of hospice and palliative care
Many people think hospice and palliative care come at the end of life, and while both often play a key role then, palliative care also can provide pain relief, symptom control, emotional comfort and s...
NHPCO Brings 100 Hospice Leaders Together to Create Future Care Delivery Models
Alexandria, Va (PRWEB) February 03, 2013 More than 100 hospice and palliative care senior level managers and leaders gathered in Florida to identify and explore innovative approaches to bring the b...
OTTAWA, May 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On May 5, 2013, thousands of Canadians of all ages will gather on walking paths, parks, and hiking trails across Canada to celebrate the 11th Annual Hike for H...
Bayshore Home Health joins Hike for Hospice Palliative Care fundraiser for eighth consecutive year
Bayshore Home Health is embarking on its eighth consecutive year to raise money for local palliative care hospices across the country. Over the last seven years the home health care provider has raise...
Minorities Less Likely to Use Hospice Care: Study
FRIDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- Minority patients with heart failure are less likely to use hospice care than whites, new research finds. Hospice provides palliative care for the terminally ill...
Bliss Appointed President of Hospice & Palliative Federation of Massachusetts
NEWTON, Mass., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kathy Bliss, MSN, RN, CHPCA, has assumed the position of President of the Hospice & Palliative Federation of Massachusetts. Bliss has been a member of t...
Baltimore - Sinai Hospital Opens Inpatient Hospice Unit
Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, recently opened a dedicated inpatient hospice unit. Managed by Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, the 15-bed unit is intended to help patients transition between curativ...
Drugs and Medications
Celadrin [Lifetech Resources, LLC]
celadrin ADVANCED JOINT & MUSCLE PAIN RELIEVING CREAM
Carbogen [WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.]
Carbogen
Antibacterial hand sanitizer pocket sprayer [National Pen Co., LLC]
ANTIBACTERIAL HAND SANITIZER POCKET SPRAYER
Carbon dioxide [WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.]
Carbon Dioxide USP
Relistor [Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.]
These highlights do not include all the information needed to use RELISTOR safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for RELISTOR. RELISTOR (methylnaltrexone bromide) Subcutaneous Injec...
PubMed Articles
Given the essential role of volunteers in hospice palliative care, it would be beneficial to have a recruitment and retention tool that is reliable and valid. To address this gap, the current investig...
Population-based studies investigating access to palliative care often use death in a hospice as a proxy for service use. We linked data from a large South London hospice to Thames Cancer Registry (TC...
Humanistic Nursing Theory: application to hospice and palliative care.
wu h.-l. & volker d.l. (2011) Humanistic Nursing Theory: application to hospice and palliative care. Journal of Advanced Nursing. ABSTRACT: Aim.  This article presents a discussion of the relevanc...
Palliative Medicine: Barriers and Developments in Mainland China.
The development of palliative care in China is vital to the care of its aging population and associated increase in cancer incidence. There are physician-related and population-related barriers which...
Generalist plus Specialist Palliative Care - Creating a More Sustainable Model.
The U.S. palliative care model adds another layer of specialized care to a complex, expensive health care environment, and there are too few palliative care specialists to meet demand. Distinguishing...
Clinical Trials
Multidisciplinary Inpatient Palliative Care Intervention
Palliative care is believed to improve care of patients with life-limiting illnesses. This study evaluated the impact of a multi-center randomized trial of a palliative care team intervent...
Patient-Reported Outcomes-Based Palliative and Hospice Care Practice: A Usability Study
The goal of this research study is to learn if palliative care patients or caregivers, and palliative care physicians or nurses can use a computer program designed to provide information a...
Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO)-Based Palliative and Hospice Care Practice: A Qualitative Study
The goal of this research study is to collect information to plan how to design a computer program for cancer patients receiving palliative care, their caregivers, and doctors and nurses w...
Efficacy of Hylenex in the Treatment of Pain Among Hospice Patients
The overall aim of this study is to find out whether Hylenex recombinant (for short, Hylenex) in subcutaneous (SC) injection improves the speed and effectiveness of SC opioids in hospice p...
Caregiver Assessments of the Quality of Home Hospice Care
The Objectives are to administer the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care (FEHC) questionnaire and The Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG) to caregivers previously enrolled into the paren...
Companies
San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care
San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care has earned the community’s respect over the past 29 years by providing exceptional care to those in need. The organization established the County’s first hospic...
International Association Hospice and Palliative Care
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care develops a List of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care (Houston TX) – In collaboration with other organizations, the International A...
Halcyon Hospice and Palliative Care
Halcyon Hospice and Palliative Care is committed to a standard of excellence in providing sensitive, patient-centered, and health care to hospice patients and families. Please vis...
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Many people mistakenly think that hospice is simply a place you go when nothing more can be done to address an illness. That misunderstanding can keep people from accessing the expert care that hospic...
Pathways Home Health & Hospice
http://www.pathwayshealth.org
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