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Barbara McGuire, LMSW was featured in an article that appeared in NURSE.COM on November 2. 2009. The article focused on the vital work of the Hospice Care Network. The program provides services to sick children and their families through Network's hospice and bereavement programs. Within the service provided is the unique dimension of providing care and counseling for pregnant mothers who carry their unborn babies to term who might be still born or who have a terminal illness.
McGuire is quoted extensively throughout the article:
We journey through the entire process with them. So the counselor stays with the family throughout the entire pregnancy, as well as when they bring in pastoral care, and are with them during the birth, if [the families] want,” McGuire says. “I don’t know many hospice programs that offer as extensive a bereavement program as we do. A lot of hospices mandated by Medicare provide bereavement up to 13 months after the patient dies. However, most bereavement is letters and possibly a phone call from a volunteer. In our bereavement department, we have trained professionals and a large staff, and we treat our clients individually and run groups... We’ve found that even having a diagnosis in utero of a terminal illness of a child is a tremendous grief,” McGuire says. “The loss of that child can go on for decades. The message that I would want people to hear is: Don’t go through this alone.
Barbara McGuire is the CPSP Registrar, a Board Certified Clinical Chaplain and Pastoral Counselor.
To read the complete article, click here.
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at November 16, 2009 10:06 PM
