Hospice and Palliative Studies
Promote connection, healing in relationships, and helping each other live meaningful and purpose-driven lives.
Promote connection, healing in relationships, and helping each other live meaningful and purpose-driven lives.
The needs of our aging population require more professionals trained in hospice and palliative studies (HPS) to provide end-of-life care for patients, and bereavement support for their grieving families. Our certificate programs include interdisciplinary, cutting-edge content with specialties in integrative medicine, clinical grief counseling/family therapy, nursing home administration, hospice and palliative care nursing, and management. For many, the program becomes a spiritual quest and personal journey to discover the transcendent in everyday life and relationships.
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What year did you graduate with your certificate?
"2017 Master's Certificate in Bereavement, Trauma and Loss."
Where are you working now?
"New Hope Center for Grief Support in Northville, MI."
How has your hospice certificate(s) helped you in your current work or related service
role?
"I am the Program Director for a grief support organization. We serve grieving children
and families by providing special events and programs. We serve adults in grief by
providing on-going support groups, seminars and workshops to help them understand
and normalize grief and connect with others who have experienced similar losses at
similar times in their lives."
In thinking about your time at Madonna University, what are the highlights? What stands
out for you? What did you like about being a student at Madonna?
"The staff, Dr. Kelly Rhoades, Dr. Kathy Aseltyne, Ms. Anna Kostaraff and others of
the Hospice and Palliative program are genuine. They know and understand the grief
process and work to help improve society by enabling students to do our best and serve
the grievers who need to know that grief is normal not crazy. They are also great
advocates for the hospice movement that helps provide a more humane and family focused
life until death."