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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Summary Transcript Summary. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Alex: And we also like to welcome-.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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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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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” So, in 2017 Global Partners in Care moved from NHPCO and is now affiliated with the Center for Hospice Care.”

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

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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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. Fewer than half of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase, reported that their hospice organizations would pursue new care types this year.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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