Death & Dying Fellows Put Learnings into Practice

 Since 2015, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF's) Death & Dying Fellowship has endeavored to educate and inform the next generation of healthcare professionals on the nuances of communicating with patients and families e...
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10th Annual Death and Dying Fellowship Kicks Off

Since 2015, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) Death and Dying Fellowship has been preparing students in the art of working and talking with patients and families facing the end of life. The healthcare landscape has experienced n...
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Death and Dying Series Equips Professionals with Strategies for Improving Conversation Skills

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) completed its second Death and Dying Series for Healthcare Professionals on November 13. This program, inspired by the popular Death and Dying Fellowship for graduate students, was designed to enh...
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Feinstein Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: Amy Kowinsky

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Fellowship Alumni Spotlight series showcases some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships.  Death & Dying Fellowship Alumna Amy Kowinsky shares about her 2015 Fellowship ex...
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Professionals Enhance Death and Dying Communication Skills in Series Kickoff

Despite the increasing attention being given to the need for quality conversations with patients early in the course of serious illness, these conversations still often occur too late in the illness process, and clinicians often feel i...
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Death & Dying Fellows Put Learnings into Practice

Despite the need for better conversations around end-of-life care that the COVID-19 pandemic brought, many practitioners still find themselves unprepared to talk about serious illness and death with patients and families. The Jewish He...
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Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: Gabriella Agostaro

 The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Fellowship Alumni Spotlight series showcases some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships. In the above video, 2022 Death and Dying Fellowship & Patient Safety Fellowship ...
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Death and Dying Fellowship Kicks Off

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF)'s 2023 Feinstein Fellowship on Death and Dying returned on January 23 with its first in-person session since 2020, held at the JHF offices in Downtown Pittsburgh. This year's fellowship welcomes 2...
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New Death and Dying Series for Professionals Concludes

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) completed its first Death and Dying Series for Healthcare Professionals on November 2. This pilot program was inspired by the popular Death and Dying Fellowship for graduate students but was expli...
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Now Accepting Applications for the Next Death and Dying Fellowship

The Death and Dying Fellowship, one of the Feinstein Fellowships, takes on a key challenge: the reality that professionals are not well prepared to deal with death, dying, and grieving families, especially during an era of COVID-19. Th...
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New Death and Dying Series for Healthcare Professionals Launches

Death, dying, and grieving are inevitable realities of health care. Although healthcare professionals confront these issues regularly, many still do not feel equipped to communicate with patients and families about these challenging ma...
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Death and Dying Fellowship Concludes

The 2022 Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) Death and Dying Fellowship completed its nine-session run on March 28. This year's program equipped 34 fellows from a broad range of disciplines with the skills to confront and discuss the le...
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Death and Dying Fellowship Important as Ever in COVID Era

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF)'s 2022 Feinstein Fellowship on Death and Dying commenced with its first virtual session on January 24. Over the nine three-hour sessions, participants will learn, confront, and discuss the legal, ...
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2021 Death and Dying Fellowship Concludes

The all-virtual 2021 Jewish Healthcare Foundation Death and Dying Fellowship concluded its nine-session run on March 22. The Fellowship takes on the challenge that professionals are not well prepared to deal with death, dying, and grie...
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Death and Dying Fellowship Launches Virtually in 2021

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF)'s 2021 Death and Dying Feinstein Fellowship began with the first session on January 25. The Death & Dying Fellowship takes on a key challenge: the reality that professionals are not well prepa...
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Death and Dying Fellowship Model Shared as Continuing Education for Funeral Directors

On September 23rd, JHF COO/Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts presented a two-hour continuing education session entitled "Grief in an Era of COVID-19" for over 200 funeral directors gathered in Cleveland, Ohio. While the funeral direct...
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Death and Dying Fellows Equipped with Critically Relevant Skills

As health systems across the country scramble to keep pace with the COVID-19 pandemic, one skill in high demand is navigating end of life conversations and decisions. The pandemic has created some new challenges for families, including...
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Tree of Life Shooting Survivor Returns to Speak with Death & Dying Fellows

There are few conversations as difficult as those that surround the death of a loved one. Learning how to compassionately and thoughtfully walk into those moments is at the heart of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Death and Dying Fe...
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Sixth Annual Death and Dying Fellowship Begins

Everyone has preferences for how they'd like to be cared for in their final days, but too often those preferences are not taken into account because they are not discussed – not by patients, family or providers. According to a 2016 Kai...
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Death & Dying Fellowship Concludes With Post-Gazette Feature Story

The 2019 Death & Dying Fellowship concluded on April 1 with the fellows practicing their skills in conducting end-of-life conversations, after receiving guidance from guest speaker Dr. Bob Arnold, chief of Palliative Care and Medic...
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