At the nonprofit Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, which serves 1,200 dying patients daily, many employees and volunteers have great job satisfaction and readily answer a common question: "How do you work here?" In other public health news: Alzheimer's, HIV outreach, hip replacement research, all-plant burgers, carcinogenic chemicals and racial profiling.
from Kaiser Health News https://ift.tt/2NQvKoB
July 27, 2018
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As Exhausting As Hospice Work Is, These Caregivers Describe Their Roles As Sacred, Deeply Fulfilling
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