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Goodwin Hospice Academy

Practical education
for the people who
practice hospice care.

A learning platform for the professionals who care for patients and families at the end of life. Coached practice. Clear career pathways. Ready when you are.

Free for hospice professionals. No credit card.
Academy. Home
Today

Practice the family conflict scenario before Thursday.

You have an admission with the Alvarez family coming up. Twenty minutes with a coached simulation walks you into it with a plan.

Your active courses
  • Symptom Management at End of Life
    Chapter 4. Dyspnea
  • IDG Documentation That Holds Up
    Chapter 2. Timely notes
Your plan
  1. Orientation
    Cleared February 12
  2. Aide competency, §418.76
    In progress. Three of five signed.
  3. Preceptor sign off
    Scheduled for March 4
Suggested next
Grief conversations with the primary caregiver.

Fits your active families this week. A twelve minute module and a short scenario.

Built for hospice
Built with hospice cliniciansAligned to CoP and HOPE standardsHIPAA safe, BAA signed vendorsIn partnership with Goodwin Living, est. 1967
Where do you want to grow

Five academies. One place to grow.

  1. 01
    Hospice Nursing Academy
    For RNs, LPNs, and case managers
  2. 02
    Hospice Compliance Academy
    For compliance and QAPI teams
  3. 03
    Hospice Leadership Academy
    For DONs, clinical managers, administrators
  4. 04
    Hospice Career Academy
    For nurses stepping into hospice
  5. 05
    Hospice Retention Academy
    For people leaders
How the Academy works

Learning that follows your career.

Every hospice professional starts somewhere. The Academy meets you at the beginning, walks with you into your first shift, and stays with you as the work opens into leadership.

  1. CHAPTER I
    Learn

    Symptom management, eligibility, IDG documentation, and everything the work at the bedside asks of you.

  2. CHAPTER II
    Practice

    Coached simulations of the conversations that shape every hospice week. Practice in a safe space. Get structured feedback.

  3. CHAPTER III
    Apply

    Structured competency for the first shift, the first month, and the first year. Evidence you can point to at a survey.

  4. CHAPTER IV
    Grow

    Certifications, mentorship, and career pathways so the next chapter of your work is already mapped.

  5. CHAPTER V
    Lead

    Preceptor tools, cohort programs, and the executive views leaders use to build the next generation.

Practice

Rehearse the conversations that matter.

Academy. Practice
Goals of care conversation
Marta. daughter of Mr. Alvarez. CHF. home visit
Marta

The doctors said there is nothing more they can do, but I am not ready to stop trying. Are we just supposed to give up on him?

You

I hear how hard this moment is. Choosing hospice is not giving up on him. It is shifting the care toward what will help him feel most like himself in the time he has. Can I share what that looks like day to day?

Coaching note

Strong reframe. You named her fear without correcting it, then offered a concrete next step. Try pausing three seconds before asking what she wants her father's day to look like.

Hold to speak your response.

Goals of care. Family conflict. Symptom escalation. Difficult admissions. Every scenario is grounded in real hospice moments and reviewed by frontline clinicians. Structured coaching, never unwanted scoring.

Personalization

Training that meets you where you are.

The Academy adapts to your role, your tenure, your team, and your goals so learning always feels relevant.

Your private notes, your progress, and your messages to your preceptor stay yours. Leaders see aggregate readiness. Never the individual note.

One quiet promise

Learning belongs to the learner.

Academy. Home
Today

Practice the family conflict scenario before Thursday.

You have an admission with the Alvarez family coming up. Twenty minutes with a coached simulation walks you into it with a plan.

Your active courses
  • Symptom Management at End of Life
    Chapter 4. Dyspnea
  • IDG Documentation That Holds Up
    Chapter 2. Timely notes
Your plan
  1. Orientation
    Cleared February 12
  2. Aide competency, §418.76
    In progress. Three of five signed.
  3. Preceptor sign off
    Scheduled for March 4
Suggested next
Grief conversations with the primary caregiver.

Fits your active families this week. A twelve minute module and a short scenario.

Right-size your plan

Pricing that grows with your hospice.

Four straightforward plans, sized by average daily census. From a 15 patient solo agency to a national franchise, every tier ships the same clinical rigor. You just pay for the scale you actually run.

Your average daily census
50patients on service
Recommended
Practice
$1,499 / month
575200400+
For small independent hospices
Solo
$499/ month
or $4,990 billed annually · save 17%
Up to 25 ADCUp to 20 clinicians
  • Complete onboarding + preceptor matching
  • Family Bridge caregiver portal
  • Appendable §418.76 competency file
  • Resource Center with grounded regulatory AI
For growing single-site agencies
Recommended
Practice
$1,499/ month
or $14,990 billed annually · save 17%
26 to 75 ADC21 to 75 clinicians
  • Everything in Solo
  • Immersive simulation labs (family conferences, RealTalk)
  • Video coaching + AI feedback
  • Preceptor AI + progression ladders
For multi-site or high-ADC agencies
System
$3,999/ month
or $39,990 billed annually · save 17%
76 to 200 ADC76 to 200 clinicians
  • Everything in Practice
  • Multi-site rollups + cross-branch analytics
  • CFO ROI dashboard + retention benchmarks
  • QAPI dashboard + mock survey engine
For 200+ ADC systems and franchises
Enterprise
Custom
Starts at $8,500 / month · scales with ADC and site count
200+ ADC200+ clinicians
  • Everything in System
  • EHR integration (HCHB, MatrixCare, WellSky)
  • SSO, SAML, custom DPA and counter-signed BAA
  • White-label option, franchise multi-tenant support
Free for individuals
Nurses, aides, and CHPN candidates get personal accounts at no cost. Only agency deployments carry a plan fee.
For hospice organizations

Build stronger teams. Keep great people.

Leader Command Center
Onboarding cohort
18
active this month
Competency complete
82%
across current cohort
Preceptors matched
12 / 12
no gaps
Support flags
3
need a conversation
Onboarding cohort, March
Progress across active new hires
AO
Amara O.
RNCM
92%
On track
DL
Devin L.
LPN
74%
On track
JR
Jaya R.
RN
58%
Support
MD
Marcus D.
CNA
46%
Support
PK
Priya K.
RN
34%
Kick off
Competency snapshot
Symptom mgmt
92%
Documentation
78%
Family comms
84%
Eligibility
71%
Recommended this week
Talk with Jaya R., completing IDG modules slower than the cohort.
Assign the difficult admission simulation before Marcus is on shift.
Recognize Amara O., cleared every Q1 competency on time.

Give leaders visibility into onboarding, competency, engagement, and readiness. Reduce the manual work that fills every week.

  1. Faster onboarding
    New hires reach independent practice on a defensible timeline.
  2. Stronger competency
    Clinically reviewed evidence in a single appendable file.
  3. Earlier support
    Aggregate signals surface who needs a conversation before something becomes turnover.
  4. Less administrative work
    The Academy handles the paperwork so leaders can lead.
  5. Workforce visibility
    One view of where the team stands by role, cohort, and location.
Why we built this

Hospice is human work. The technology should make more room for the human part of care.

Goodwin Hospice Academy helps professionals build the knowledge, confidence, and support they need to focus on patients, families, and one another.

Built with hospice professionals

The people who shape the Academy.

Every module, every simulation, and every leader view was refined with clinicians in the room. The group that keeps the platform honest:

  • Frontline hospice nurses
  • Directors of nursing
  • Preceptors and mentors
  • Compliance and QAPI leaders
  • Social workers and chaplains
  • Hospice administrators
  • Aides and volunteers
  • Family caregivers we serve