Resource Links & Downloads

Brochures

• Bereavement Services (pdf | 181K)
  Information for Families and the Community
• Chaplaincy Services (pdf | 172K)
  Companions in the Search for Meaning
• Home Health (pdf | 155K)
  Skilled Services for the Adult Patient
• Inpatient Hospice Home Levels of Care (pdf | 159K)
  Information for Patients & Families
• Integrative Therapies (pdf | 493K)
  Enhancing the Quality of Life for Patients at Hospice of the Valley
• Outreach (pdf | 127K)
  A Unique Program of Supportive Care
• Pediatric Outreach (pdf | 460K)
  A Unique Program of Supportive Care
• Pediatric Program (pdf | 244K)
  When a child is seriously ill
• When is it time to consider hospice care? (pdf | 148K)
  It is time to consider hospice care when a patient exhibits one or more of the following core and/or disease-specific indicators.

Education

• Dementia Education
  Teaching professional and family caregivers new ways to connect with patients with dementia, most commonly Alzheimer’s disease.
• Medical Student Education
  Palliative care rotations also are available to requesting medical schools in Arizona.
• Nursing Student Education
  Precepted clinical experiences are offered to student nurses and nurses currently enrolled in a nurse refresher program.
• Palliative Care Nursing Fellowship
  Learn more about providing state-of-the-art palliative care to patients with heart disease, COPD, stroke, dementia, or cancer.
• Resident/Fellow (Physician) Education
  A comprehensive palliative care rotation provides local physicians-in-training and fellows with an in-depth overview of the basic principles of hospice and palliative medicine.

Grief and Loss Articles

• After the First Year – Then What? (pdf | 84K)
  
• Bereavement Newsletter: Juy/August 2008 (pdf | 737K)
  
• Coping with Holidays and Other Celebrations (pdf | 55K)
  
• Creating the Cherishable Memory (pdf | 37K)
  
• Finding Support in a Group (pdf | 40K)
  
• Grief: Coping with Hidden Sorrow (pdf | 50K)
  
• Grief: The Price We Pay for Love (pdf | 53K)
  
• Helping Your Grieving Adolescent (pdf | 41K)
  
• How to Help a Friend in Grief (pdf | 41K)
  
• I Am Standing Upon the Seashore (pdf | 36K)
  
• I Can’t Live Without You (pdf | 38K)
  
• I Hereby Resolve (pdf | 52K)
  
• I Talk To My Loved One As If She Were There (pdf | 38K)
  
• It’s Not Fair (pdf | 42K)
  
• Key Points About Grief (pdf | 52K)
  
• Key Points About Pet Loss (pdf | 54K)
  
• Limited Vision (pdf | 38K)
  
• Recognizing Your Own Progress (pdf | 55K)
  
• Resigning Your Commissions (pdf | 51K)
  
• The Tidal Wave of Grief (pdf | 49K)
  
• Things You Need to Know When Your Child Has Died (pdf | 54K)
  
• Top Ten Reasons for Avoiding Counseling (pdf | 41K)
  
• Understanding Secondary Losses in Grief (pdf | 43K)
  
• Volunteers Reap Rewards of Service (pdf | 56K)
  
• We Can Use Our Creativity (pdf | 37K)
  
• Welcome to Holland (pdf | 44K)
  
• What Does Time Have to do with Grief? (pdf | 44K)
  
• When a Parent Dies (pdf | 38K)
  
• When a Sibling Dies (pdf | 39K)
  
• Who Am I Now? (pdf | 53K)
  
• Why Don’t They Know What to Say? (pdf | 42K)
  

Links

• Age Net
  
• American Cancer Society
  
• Arizona Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  
• Cancer FAQ
  
• Department of Health and Human Services
  
• Grief Healing
  
• Growth House
  
• Health Care Decisions
  
• Last Acts
  
• Medicare
  
• National Cancer Institute's Cancer Net
  
• National Hospice Organization
  
• You Can Make a Difference in the Lives That Follow