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Hospice Social Work in a Pandemic

Hope Hospice

In honor of Social Work Appreciation Month this March, we celebrate our wonderful social work team. Most nursing facilities and assisted living communities continue to restrict visits by outsiders, except for medically essential visits or when a patient is actively dying.

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End-of-Life Doulas’ Growing Value Proposition in Hospice

Hospice News

Other health care providers, upstream of hospice, are also engaging doula services as well, such as assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, she said. Curd is also a licensed clinical social worker, and serves as a therapist at Red Wheelbarrow Counseling LLC and BetterHelp.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Assisted living, I can’t even say the word.

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New Directors at Iowa River, Home Health of the Ozarks; C-Suite Shifts at Elara Caring, VIA Health

Hospice News

Callaway previously worked as a nurse manager of UnityPoint Health. She joins the organization with a background in social work and has been in the health care field for roughly 25 years. Prior to that, she was administrator of nursing at Iowa Veterans Home.