T. Christian Rollins, MBA, CFRE’s Post

October 12 is World Hospice & Palliative Care Day! 🕯️💚 Today, we honor the incredible healthcare professionals who provide comfort, dignity, and compassionate care to those facing life-limiting illnesses. Their dedication touches countless lives every day, bringing solace and support when it's needed most. Did you know? Palliative care significantly improves the quality of life for patients and their families. However, millions worldwide still lack access to these essential services. This disparity highlights the urgent need for increased awareness and support. How can you help make a difference? 1. Share this post to raise awareness about the importance of hospice and palliative care. 2. Support local hospice and palliative care organizations through donations or volunteering. 3. Start conversations about end-of-life care with your loved ones, fostering understanding and preparation. Together, we can work towards ensuring everyone has access to quality palliative care when they need it most. Your support and advocacy can help bridge the gap and bring comfort to those in need. Join us in making a difference. Let's amplify the message of compassion and care. #WHPCDay24 #10YearsOn #PalliativeCare Learn more about World Hospice and Palliative Care Day and how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/gZNDZmCg Your action today can bring comfort to someone tomorrow. Let's stand together for compassionate care. THE WORLDWIDE HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE ALLIANCE Covenant Health Canada

The Language of Hospice Can Help Us Get Better at Discussing Death - Important communication strategies learned from hospice workers. https://lnkd.in/gvdvHPkJ #HPCFM #hospice #endoflife #communication #nonprofit

Most of the funding for hospices comes from their charitable activities. However, NHS funding makes a vital contribution. Unfortunately, UK government funding to hospices has declined in real terms. If hospices are unable to provide the care patients need, the NHS will pick up the whole cost as these patients will end up in NHS facilities instead of hospices, with the specialist care they can provide to patients and their families. The government can choose to pick up the total cost of end of life care, or they can continue to pick up a fraction of the costs by funding hospices properly. This is not the most difficult decision the government will have to make. #hospice #care

Did you know that Children’s hospices rely on grants and charitable donations to provide vital services to children and their families - from play to medical care, to respite care and advocacy? Without services such as these provided to my family and our daughter, I don’t know how we would have coped during her short life. Community NHS support is a postcode lottery with long waiting lists, so the closure of a children’s hospice should worry everyone - even if you’re fortunate enough to never need one. What can you do? ✅ Support your local hospice by taking part in fundraisers, volunteering or donating. £40 provides an hour of nursing care ✅ Follow and support charities like Together for Short Lives, which further supports families of children with life-limiting conditions (for example, we were gifted a mini break to make memories and received the Butterfly Fund to assist with funeral costs) ✅ Write to your MP and sign petitions to ensure vital services aren’t lost and vulnerable children can live their lives with dignity and care.

🦸🏻♂️Can YOU Be Today's HERO?♥️ We need your #support to keep our life-saving work running smoothly. Our dedicated team relies on portable suction units to provide critical care in #emergency situations. Recently, we discovered that several of our current units are reaching the end of their operational life. To ensure we are always ready to respond, we need to purchase 9 new Laerdal Compact Suction Units. Why are these units crucial? The Laerdal Compact Suction Unit 4 (LCSU 4) is designed for quick, efficient suction in emergency scenarios. Its compact size and powerful suction capabilities make it indispensable for: 🫁Clearing airways quickly to ensure patients can breathe properly. 🫁Responding effectively in both emergency and routine medical situations. 🫁Enhancing safety by having reliable equipment on hand at all times. With a cost of $6,000 for these essential units, your contribution will directly support our mission to provide the highest standard of care. Every #donation helps us purchase a unit, ensuring we are fully equipped and ready for any emergency. You can donate by clicking the button below. Together, we can make a significant impact and ensure that our team is equipped to handle critical situations with confidence and efficiency Thank you! @followers #fundraising #EMS #fundraiser #EMT #paramedic https://lnkd.in/ejXbAQ6g

This World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, we mark a decade since the World Health Assembly’s pivotal resolution on palliative care with the theme, 'Ten Years Since the Resolution: How Are We Doing?'. As we celebrate 20 years of this global day, it's a moment to recognise the progress made and push for greater access to care for those who need it most. Let’s continue to advocate for compassionate, dignified care for all. Here’s how you can support and get involved: 🌍 Raise Awareness: Share information about the importance of palliative care in providing relief and improving the quality of life for those facing serious illness. 💙 Support Local Hospices: Volunteer, donate, or partner with local hospice care providers to help expand access and services in your community. 📢 Advocate for Better Policies: Join global efforts to call for the full implementation of the World Health Assembly resolution, ensuring that palliative care is integrated into healthcare systems worldwide. Let’s work together to ensure no one has to suffer needlessly when compassionate care can provide comfort and dignity. For more information and resources around carers and respite in The Bailiwick, please visit our online directory: https://lnkd.in/e9ShZy6h #WorldHospiceAndPalliativeCareDay #WHPCDay2024 #CreatingConnectedCommunities #WithoutUs #DirectoryToDoorstep

VIDEO. You live in the hospital? 😳. Well, do you know of a better way to understand everything, well almost everything about hospitals? How they work, how they are run, what every machine and ward does, know a lot of the staff, a day in the life of a hospital. I lived in every single hospital my mother was in. I made some business sacrifices, but I was never going to leave her side, just too loyal and faithful a son. People think you are staff. When they announce that visiting hours are over, some hospitals tell you that you can stay, you sleep on the floor or a chair, some even give you a cot somewhere in the hospital or a private room overnight. Every hospital is different, some don't allow overnight stays, but a number of hospitals in Western Canada have a completely different philosophy and approach than hospitals in the rest of Canada, to patients' family members, friendliness to family members of patients' families, patients' family rooms and accommodation, or they find you a place to stay near to the hospital, some even have other buildings on hospital campus especially for patients' families to stay. You know a lot of things about hospitals, even different philosophies and operations. Click on the exit on the top right to access the video. You can learn so much about hospitals, if you really want to.

This post (link below) launches PCV's spring fundraising effort. Please support our vital work. We know from Vermont Department of Health data and from our own helpline experience, that the number of people who are considering or using medical aid in dying in Vermont has tripled over the past two years. This is not news about more people dying. This is news about a blossoming of choice. More people who might otherwise be entering a phase of fear, pain and trauma for themselves and their loved ones are free to step off that path and make a conscious choice about where, when, and with whom they will make their farewell. We think this note of gratitude sums it up well: “Thank you deeply for the quality & depth of the information on your website. Its clarity and palpable respect for life, patients and the challenge it is to die has provided comfort, hope, and peace. I can plan knowing freedom & options are possible.” With your support, our work is bringing the option of a graceful exit and peace of mind to ever more people. https://lnkd.in/eS_kSxhT

🌍 To coincide with #HatsOn4CPC, ICPCN has launched the Transforming Children’s Palliative Care global campaign to ask people to kindly donate to help ‘close the gap’ in access and equity. 🧡 By donating £11 or more, you can help millions of children who are suffering needlessly and help close the gap. 💚  #ICPCN #HatsOn4CPC #TransformingChildrensPalliativeCare #GlobalGiving #ClosetheGap #GlobalHealth #LifeLimitingConditions   Here's the link: https://lnkd.in/dXTb97tx

Whatever your views on the 5.5% NHS pay uplift, spare a thought for charitable hospices who are already struggling with just an average 30% NHS contribution to the specialist clinical services both the law and statutory guidance says should be fully funded. There will be difficult decisions ahead for many trustee boards and many leadership teams. We’ve been warning NHS commissioners about this for a very long time with little response in many places. Access to specialist palliative and end of life care isn’t just a legal right, it’s a moral responsibility. Avoiding difficult conversations isn’t leadership, it isn’t systems working, it isn’t collaborative and it hasn’t worked. Time for the new government to step in and show the lead. If hospices close and families experience loved ones dying in pain and distress they will know where to look for accountability. Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting MP #PalliativeCare #HospiceCare