Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

As lawmakers wrestle with necessary improvements to hospice program integrity, they should seek input from the professionals who provide that care, Dr. Holly Yang, incoming board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) told Hospice News. And I think that we don’t need to do that alone.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

As it is not end-of-life care, patients can continue to receive life-prolonging or curative treatments, which they cannot receive if choosing hospice for most conditions. Outpatient palliative care is not about seeing someone for the first time and calling hospice,” Schell explained. Sadly, sometimes that’s what we’re doing.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. Why Beth?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Transcript.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Sometimes hospice patients live longer than six months. When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. Yep, you heard me right.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Let’s just dig into what the problem is with that renewed focus on quality in hospice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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Hospice of the North Coast

APRIL 15, 2021

When members of a group make art, they create shared experiences in the present. Kelly Gelhaar, Art Therapist & Bereavement Counselor at Hospice of the North Coast. About the Author: Kelly Gehlhaar holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work. Making art with others is a gratifying and pleasurable experience.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of Social Work. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. She was homeless.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

Three of these services in particular include social work, bereavement, and chaplain services. Social Workers Social workers work within a healthcare team as vital advocates for patients and primarily serve individuals that are identified as “high-risk”.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . Wonderful work. Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Every Veteran has a story.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. So I do think that probably is step one is just asking, which I think is what we proposed.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. LJ: Totally.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Cudjoe’s recent work demonstrating the impact of social isolation on dementia risk , populations at risk , and how our social lives “getting under our skin.” ” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). I got a background in [inaudible 00:15:46], a background in public health, background in social work. And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Social Work. I was a Civil Engineer for six years but made the move to nursing for the many pathways and opportunities it presents, as well as a better work/life balance. All men should consider Nursing as a career because of the flexibility, and opportunities that the career presents. Psychologist. Stomal Nursing.

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