Legacy-Building Nonprofit Enhances Hospice Education, Bereavement Support

A recently developed student-led bereavement program is expanding hospice education while boosting volunteer opportunities in grief support. Pre-med students at John Hopkins University and Brown University have established Letters Without Limits, a nonprofit legacy-building service designed to preserve and document serious and terminally ill patients’ memories. Students transcribe patients’ audio-recorded memories into letters for their […]

HHS Prolongs Public Health Emergency as Pandemic Surges On

U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra today ordered an extension of the public health emergency, citing a result of “continued consequences” of the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency declaration had been set to expire Jan. 16. Thus far, the public health emergency has been thus extended approximately every three months or 90 […]