Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Phoenix Children’s palliative program began in 2009 and includes nine physicians, social workers, mental health therapists, child life specialists and bereavement support professionals. The organization’s pediatric palliative and hospice fellowship program launched in 2020. it’s not always something taught in medical school.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Additional palliative team members included Kim Danforth, a licensed social worker, and Brooke Simmons as its new medical assistant. The Pine Tree State had the highest volume of seniors compared to any other state across the country in 2020, outranking only Florida and Vermont that year at 21.2% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

2020 and is now worth an estimated $375 million. Oregon in 2020 decriminalized a number of drugs that remain illegal federally. Some in the serious illness space believe that psychedelic-assisted therapy represents a new frontier in palliative care, even though the substances remain illegal at the federal level.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to a 2020 study by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, alarmingly high rates of stress and an extraordinarily high symptom burden among patients with cancer were identified, exceeding those previously benchmarked and on par with noncancer patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated. An estimated 1.9

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers. The senior care company agilon health (NYSE: AGL) will more than double the size of its palliative care program this year, with plans to leverage its robust suite of data to optimize care. agilon health CMO Dr. We bring insights.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Reimbursement pressures, workforce strains and lagging awareness represent pain points preventing greater utilization of palliative care. These factors can weigh even heavier on access and quality of life for seriously ill children and their families in need of these services. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

million people worldwide who need palliative care actually receive these services, according to a separate 2020 WHO report. Though regional variations exist, some palliative care delivery challenges are nearly universal for providers across the globe. Increasing goals of care conversations among patients and families is another. “It

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The program recently saw its second cohort of graduates, which included clinicians, social workers and chaplains who completed the year-long training program that focuses on a peer-based training approach in pediatric palliative care delivery. What led to the start of your Pediatric Palliative Care Anchor Training Program?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Pediatric subspecialists are at a higher risk of burnout than others, according to authors of a 2020 study from the journal of Pediatric Quality & Safety. For example,] a registered nurse acting as a social worker, or a social worker acting as a chaplain, child life specialist, or complementary therapist.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The health care startup currently provides interdisciplinary services in 28 states to 30,000 seniors who suffer from chronic health conditions and social determinants issues. This is up from 1,700 patients in three states in 2020. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Researchers analyzed 2020 claims data to identify associations between SIA utilization and hospice Medicare beneficiaries’ characteristics such as site of service, level of care and length of stay, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

1 Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers (July 11). One seldom-discussed aspect of this year’s pervasive labor shortage was the number of social workers who had left the field. Social workers cited a lack of employer engagement as a leading cause of burnout and turnover, sources told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

She then served as associate vice president of health equity and access at AccentCare following Seasons’ merger with the company in 2020, before moving on to her current role at Empassion Health. Health equity became a large focus for McCann-Davis early on in her career. What led you to the field of hospice and palliative care?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The massive loss of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic — more than 1 million deaths since 2020 — has spurred demand for bereavement care and was a partial impetus for the legislation. . This would include social workers, grief counselors, and chaplains, among others.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

A nationwide survey from Pew Research Center in 2020 of more than 8,600 African Americans found that nearly three-quarters identify their belief system as some type of Christian faith, while 3% identify as non-Christians. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services.

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. It surprises me that despite much research and team role development, palliative care team members may not be aware of the importance of the palliative care social worker. I was not the only one.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. More than a third (34%) of family caregivers were Baby Boomers in 2020, according to a report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS introduced SIA in 2016 to allow hospices to bill for RHC at the continuous home care rate on an hourly basis for registered nurse and social worker visits during the last seven days of a patient’s life.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care. A team of St. Formerly Hospice of St. billion.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Hospice aides reported “episodic symptoms” of burnout that were largely driven by workload challenges and administrative demands in a 2020 study from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Participants included hospice aides, social workers, nurses, clinicians, chaplains and other staff.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. We are severely concerned with the direction that CMS has taken on this program. We don’t have confidence in the algorithm that they proposed. Beth Van Duyne Rep. Elected to the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020. The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. The company has raised at least $40.3

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This continues the downward trend from 2020, likely due to deaths continuing to outpace the growth in hospice due to COVID-19. Despite this rebound from the 2020 decrease, no group has returned to pre-COVID-19 utilization percentages. Decrease in percentage of eligible patients served: Of all Medicare decedents in CY 2021, 47.3%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states. “The

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. Between 2020 and 2023 policymakers introduced a slew of new regulations, a revamped survey process and developed a new Special Focus Program for hospices. Only LPNs and LVNs had higher rates, reaching 31.52% turnover and 25.12% for vacancies.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. The most recent available utilization data are from 2020, but the hospice community should be watching for updated numbers. Clinicians will also need time to build up experience in the field.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Fleece is the former CEO of Stratum Health, which merged with Empath in 2020. . Before coming to hospice you worked as an oncology social worker in Ohio. This week Sciullo will retire, with Empath President Jonathan Fleece standing ready to take the helm. That is really where we need to go in the future.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Norman served on the NHPCO Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002, later returning to the Board and serving as Vice President from 2019 to 2020, and Chair from 2021 to 2022. Caring for the widow of a Veteran, an MJHS social worker learned of the patient’s dying wish to be buried with her husband at the Calverton National Cemetery.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. December 2020. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome to the podcast Alaine Murawski…Social worker and researcher, research study coordinator at Northwestern. Geriatrics. Journal of Patient Experience.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. Since my mom died in 2020 until I wrote this piece in the fall of last year, I had not ever expected or intended to write about my experience.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of Social Work. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Matthew: Thank you.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. A 2020 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization , using data collected in 2018, states that over 50 percent of patients were receiving hospice care for 30 days or fewer. Nursing is just the start.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes.

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