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.”.
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. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 26, 2023
EOLDs have had a growing presence in the serious illness and end-of-life care space, but their services are not reimbursed by Medicare or other insurance, according to Jane Euler, co-founder and chief doula of Present for You LLC. Doulas can help patients find a hospice earlier in their disease trajectories, Euler indicated.
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.
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.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. 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. among Medicare decedents from 51.6%
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. Some providers have had patients who die within a day or two of admission, or in some cases a matter of hours.
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