Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative professionals are among the health care providers with room for improvement in their gender affirming practices, according to Zachary Fried, licensed clinical social worker and training supervisor of Optum at Home, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company offers palliative care on an inpatient and outpatient basis in addition to its home-based services, using an interdisciplinary model that includes physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, coordinators, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The unit includes an interdisciplinary care team with physicians, advanced practice providers and social workers who will deliver the same level of care that a patient would receive in their home or a clinical office, according to Liesl Vale, marketing coordinator for Four Seasons.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Lowenthal recently presented research at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting in which she found that many residents are unfamiliar with the needs of older patients, despite the large numbers of seniors in need of care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

This reality presents a valuable opportunity for palliative care to directly support patients by focusing on their lifestyle and goals.” In the face of staffing shortages, especially of nurses and social workers, telehealth also helps coordinate visits with those team members, Schell explained. You need nurses.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This tracks with available data.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 22, 2023

As we celebrate National Social Work Appreciation Month, it’s important to recognize the significant role Hospice Social Workers play in providing compassionate care to patients and their families during end-of-life care. The importance of Hospice Social Workers cannot be overstated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

A lack of trained hospice and palliative care professionals in rural regions also presents a barrier to access. The legislation has taken a circuitous route through Congress in recent years, repeatedly reintroduced without passing since 2017.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan. The company also employs social workers to assist patients with psychosocial needs and offers services to address social determinants of health. Most DCEs expect a seamless transition into ACO REACH.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane: Thank you for having me. John: Yeah.

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The Bucket-List Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Julie Mullens presents George with a gift from the care team. Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. They, and their families, gave us permission to share their experience with you.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

“There’s lots of opportunities here in terms of bringing palliative care and hospice care more front and center and more top of mind, frankly, to those on the care team to present that to their patients,” Behan said. CMS plans to select close to 130 ACOs for the program. The voluntary five-year demonstration launches Jan.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses. And secondly, nurses are best at doing nursing, and social workers are best at doing social work. Maybe by dealing with that with a social worker, you’re lowering anxiety.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. What was your role in the process and how did you determine a need for these services?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I love this survey because it is mostly of physicians, which physicians are doing the lion’s share of the palliative care work here, but what you say you’re comfortable doing for depression care might not dovetail with what a psychologist or social worker would do in the context of depression care. We have a social worker.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient. “The second is knowing how to ask the right questions upon admission.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Lessening the Toll Beyond networking and keeping an eye on the future, your present experience also holds great importance. In your day-to-day work, your relationships with physicians, other nurses, social workers, chaplains, administrators, managers, preceptors, instructors — they all have a potential role to play.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

It also presents difficult and “tricky” parameters for clinicians who “aren’t sitting at the bedside with stopwatch,” Grant said. The bill also would have expanded the range of clinicians who can bill for those services to include social workers and qualified non-clinical staff. Further, the bill, introduced by U.S.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. Three of these services in particular include social work, bereavement, and chaplain services. Fortunately, a number of counseling services are readily available to individuals requiring long term care.

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Hospice Red River Valley

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Tammy Monsebroten, LCSW, suicide prevention coordinator and Andrea Dockendorf, LCSW, HUD-VASH and homeless outreach social worker both with the Fargo VA Health Care System, will present “Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk.” In this collaborative session, participants will: Locate validated screening tools.

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Comforcare Home Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

RNs, LPNs, Social Workers and Certified Case Managers - will receive 1 continuing education credit. Dr. Heather McKay, Occupational Therapist and Dementia Care Specialist will present this informative webinar designed to improve sleep for people with dementia and their caregivers. Please register today: [link].

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

During the conference at the National Hospice Foundation’s 2023 Gala, NHPCO honored the outstanding contributions of Judi Lund Person and Norman McRae to the community by presenting each of them with the Galen Miller Leadership Award. He presently serves on the NHPCO Board as Immediate Past Chair.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Case in point, Virginia-based Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago. A large pro is the team collaboration and how doulas collaborate with clinicians, chaplains and social workers in that interdisciplinary approach,” Bretthauer said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If we look at some of the decks and slide presentations on the Medicare Advantage carve-in, going back to 2018, it’s the same information, and we’re still talking about impacting change. We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed. People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Sally came on Tuesdays and Kelly Fitch, his hospice social worker, visited on Thursdays. Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. I think that’s going to be a continuing area of focus.” The behavioral home model for reimbursement is very appealing to us,” Androscoggin CEO Ken Albert told Hospice News at the time of the deal. “We

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” “It had been twinned with the Palliative Care Association of Uganda, and quickly became a very successful and engaged partnership. Title transfer In 2014, based on input from leaders of U.S.-based

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Teresa immediately spoke with Heather Randall, a social worker, about Nancy’s situation. Kylie Randall, daughter of social worker Heather Randall, donated makeup application. Together, they offered Nancy the opportunity to have her wedding at the Center.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. We created a video for social media featuring the song and put out a public call for help with the digitizing project. Shaunna Patton, a social worker with Caretenders at the time, connected us with Pastor B.J. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ask if they would like a safe family member or friend to be present. Be present and attentive. Prepare the patient ahead of time for the exam by telling them exactly what you are going to do before you do it. While performing exams tell the patient what you are doing step by step.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Around the same time, Jacqueline Willrich, 86, a retired French teacher at Northwestern University and social worker, also arrived at Westminster. With so many distractions in day-to-day lives — the steady stream of news, for example — working with the brush or camera keeps the artist focused solely in the present moment of creation.

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Healthy Workforce Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, if patient violence occurs more frequently during a period when a patient is told they have cancer, perhaps you could have a social worker or counselor be present or offer additional support during the period of time after.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 10, 2023

Talking to a counselor, medical social worker, or spiritual professional can help patients unload some of their worries without putting additional strain on their community. Pancreatic cancer presents its own unique care challenges which are most effectively managed by an interdisciplinary hospice team.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

How do you create a control tower or a population health team as many of the IDNs would call it, that oversees that group? You’re in a value-based model, you have to manage your resources and your workforce in that manner.

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