Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. The payment increases were generally seen as a boon for providers, though some voiced concern about the cut to routine home care, which represents about 97% of the services hospices provide, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. They only started having to publicly report these in 2016. I just want to highlight some work.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. 2015, 2016.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After one of Boyd’s clients, an older African American woman, suffered double strokes, a hospital social worker assumed that she had no family and no private insurance. Hospital administrators placed the woman in a subpar nursing home, at which her health declined. Boyd’s focus has proven ahead of its time.

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