Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

A key component of interdisciplinary palliative care is addressing patients’ emotional health. Patients may also be seen by palliative care teams when they are interested in the therapy and receive a referral. This was expanded to cover the Oncology and Palliative Care Departments.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Hospice Social Worker in our northern catchment area. As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. 454 Glen street.

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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.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula. She serves as vice-chair of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council. There’s a huge variety even within the scope of what makes a doula who they are.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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

AUGUST 1, 2023

If pending legislation were to create new palliative care career opportunities, clinicians would be ready to take them, Dr. Holly Yang, incoming board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) told Palliative Care News. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 2, 2022

High Peaks Hospice Celebrates National Social Worker Month from March 1-31st. We’ve asked some questions to the team members to help share their insight and allow a better understanding of them as individuals and/or the work they do. Hospice Social Worker. Hospice Social Worker.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Patients at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center can now take advantage of a new palliative care program that brings the care from the clinic or hospital into the patient’s home. Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative.

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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 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. The massive loss of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic — more than 1 million deaths since 2020 — has spurred demand for bereavement care and was a partial impetus for the legislation. .

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. When should people get palliative care?

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I am the one attending physician on HopeHealth’s inpatient pediatric palliative care team. I am also a supervisor for the adult inpatient palliative care teams at two hospitals, at Rhode Island Hospital and the Miriam Hospital, which are the main teaching sites of Brown Medical School. I’m a pediatrician.

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

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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 is a consultant in palliative care. 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.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

This, coupled with the limited number of clinicians trained to provide pediatric hospice and palliative care, further complicates recruitment and retention in a very competitive labor market. This can take a toll on work/life balance and increase stress of finding time to accomplish the needs of the patient and family.”.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. Palliative care is a type of medical treatment that helps to improve the quality of life for people living with serious illnesses. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative?

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Trained as a social worker, Ms. 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. Did nudging work?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. 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.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Then finally, we’re doing the same kind of thing with problem-solving in palliative care, trying to move our research up upstream outside of hospice a bit. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses. I propose that is the social worker.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard. Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. 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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome to the podcast Alaine Murawski…Social worker and researcher, research study coordinator at Northwestern. One of my co-authors, Alaine Murawski, who’s a social worker, she has a lot of the similar experiences if you want to talk about it from a social worker perspective.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

But the decision is also empowering, because an array of supportive care and assistance becomes available to both the patient and family. Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Home health aides for personal care. The Role of Social Work in Hospice.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

SPONSOR: This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care. 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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Emily: Glad to be here Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Anne Rohlfing, who is a palliative care physician at the VA Palo Alto. Welcome back, Anne. Anne Rohlfing: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). Abby: Thank you.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social workers can help you and your loved one resolve any lingering end-of-life planning. Physician services : Physicians help oversee the care of hospice patients. . Pain management : One of the biggest goals of hospice care is to help reduce the symptoms associated with end-of-life illnesses.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A lot of times we, unfortunately, had to eat a lot of the reimbursement because we had to switch them to a routine level of care, even if they were in our inpatient unit, while our social work team worked on placement issues or they worked on caregiver issues. They worked on things like that.

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