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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

Hospice News

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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Social Work Appreciation Month

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March is National Social Work Appreciation Month! 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.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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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. A late referral often means that the patient will not receive the full benefits of hospice care.

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How Outpatient Palliative Care Clinics Advance Person-Centered Care

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This reality presents a valuable opportunity for palliative care to directly support patients by focusing on their lifestyle and goals.” The majority of outpatient palliative care clinics are found running alongside diagnostic and treatment centers for specific conditions, Schell explained. You need nurses. In May 2022, Sen.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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HopeHealth is also a hospice and palliative medicine teaching affiliate for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The health system in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults. The numbers were pretty striking.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

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The first one is with caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients that are in hospice care. 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.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. But the prevalence of mental health conditions and related concerns like isolation and substance abuse mean that hospice and behavioral health providers may need to find more ways to integrate their services.

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