Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. This adds to what we already knew: involvement of social work impacts quality of care and patient satisfaction (Auerbach, 2007; O’Donnell et al., These misconceptions are common. Quite a wide gamut.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When patients got their diagnosis for a cancer, there’s a lot that goes into processing that — there’s a need for social work and for counseling to sort of help them deal with the issues… whether they want treatment, whether they don’t want treatment, how much treatment do they want,” Dutta said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Building a Collaborative Care program provided the financial infrastructure to allow our team of social workers to expand our services and address many of the behavioral health needs of our patients, as well as our medical social work line,” Walton told Palliative Care News. For patients dealing with cancer, this is essential.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. Insurance companies and Medicare are also starting to recognize the cost savings and improved patient outcomes the clinics can provide. “I The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) I believe it has more than a chance. So it’s exciting to see the growth.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc., Interest in palliative care is rising among job-seeking clinicians, but the influx remains too slow to meet rising demand. However, that paradigm may be starting to shift due to a series of changes in the health care system.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I’ll be working on that title. Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Researchers have found common threads in efforts to develop sustainable pediatric palliative care for underserved patients and families in need worldwide. Though demand is growing for pediatric palliative care, availability of these services is scarce at global levels, with staffing shortages and reimbursement issues as large culprits.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

This can add to the strain of their work as they care for very different populations with different needs, according to Joan Harold, director of home care clinical services at Michigan-based Angela Hospice. Pediatrics ranked seventh out of 29 clinical specialties that experienced burnout during 2021, according to the survey.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. She recently spoke about her work at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) annual conference. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

Wladkowski, the Larry and Patty Benz Professor and an associate professor of social work at Bowling Green State University. Votsmier Endowed Chair and a professor in the Valentine School of Nursing at Saint Louis University, and Stephanie P. Among the changes that the U.S. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% of the nation’s 1.7

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Industry groups such as the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the Social Work in Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN) began calling on policymakers to develop a national grief care strategy in early 2021. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would authorize $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work. The bill’s most recent go around was last May, reintroduced by Sens.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Texas-based Midland Health recently opened a new inpatient palliative care center aimed at improving access and quality outcomes among seriously ill patients and their families. Dubbed the Center for Serious Illness and Supportive Care, the facility will be based at the health system’s Midland Memorial Hospital.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Palliative and hospice care providers can be the linchpins in improving advance care planning disparity issues among African Americans, according to Karen Bullock, professor of social work at Boston College. This has contributed to widespread mistrust of the health care system among some communities. Researchers from Charles R.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Other supporters include organizations such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), Respecting Choices, and the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would authorize $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work. Hoover told Hospice News. It really should have been a lot higher.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Hospice News sat down with Comfort to talk about Calvary’s hospice and palliative care model, its work to educate clinicians on the nature of those services and how to provide them, as well as the organization’s partnership with other local resources. Those services are often grouped into what’s called the post-acute space.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Gaines is a doctoral candidate in palliative care at the University of Maryland, and Cagle is an associate professor at its School of Social Work. “We The remaining 14% of hospices in states with a CON provision in place had a higher unadjusted mean Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality score for all measures than those that did not.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

The bill would have authorized $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each trainee receives exposure to different interdisciplinary aspects of hospice, including skills labs in end-of-life nursing and social work, communications, EMR systems and ongoing educational courses around the philosophy of hospice care, according to Garcia.

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JULY 25, 2023

Though CON regulations are not necessarily an indicator of quality, size or ownership status, they can give lawmakers a window into the relationship between quality and oversight, as well as other variables that impact end-of-life experiences, according to John Cagle, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. “We

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Our findings showed improvement in HCI measures which drive quality, including increased nursing and social work visits and time spent in the home to support patients and their loved ones and caregivers in the last seven days of life,” Nangle said. Even more importantly, it’s helping with staff satisfaction.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palliative care teams often include doctors, nurses, social workers as well as counselors who specialize in spiritual and emotional support. What Is Palliative Care? When having a loved one that is dealing with a terminal disease, you may come across the option of Palliative care. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some commenters expressed interest in the role HOPE will play in advancing health equity, including voicing support for the collection of social risk data, including social determinants of health (SDOH) data,” the rule language indicated. We know the different experiences [underserved populations] have had to overcome.

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Trained as a social worker, Shirley has been an oncology and palliative social worker. She was co-editor fo the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work. Trained as a social worker, Shirley has been an oncology and palliative social worker. She was co-editor fo the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work.

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Atilio has been a leader in social work. She was PDIA scholar and a MayDay Fellow and led the development of the role of social work in pain management. She co-edited the Textbook of Palliative Social Work. Trained as a social worker, Ms. Atilio has been a leader in social work.

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Pallimed

JANUARY 28, 2021

What is the not-so-subtle message being conveyed about our work? Because we need more people interested in working in palliative care and hospice as a career. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) Most palliative care teams love to have medical students on service, but the access may be variable. People laugh and turn away.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little training in hospice and palliative care during the course of their education. A 2018 study found that most would not feel prepared to provide family-centered care in the final stages of life.

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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. Barbara highlights social workers’ inherent leadership qualities and tasks us to consider whether our own team and organizational structures are allowing for optimal social work engagement and influence.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. The most prevalent and increasingly common conditions among aging populations are dementia-related behavioral and psychiatric symptoms and depressive disorders, NAS researchers found.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Presented by the EAPC Social Work Task Force. Chaired by Steve Marshall, the session will include presentations on: What is music therapy, and how is it applied within palliative and end-of-life care- Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener Music therapy in bereavement – what are the benefits?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. I have a lot of questions, because I have never worked within end-of-life doula in my 20 years of doing palliative care. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? John: I do.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Support comes from the American Psychological Association (APA), the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA), and the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN). For Immediate Release. September 30, 2022 .

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