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.”. The average age among the veterans was about 65.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 28, 2022

National Social Work Month. March is National Social Work Month, which means we’re celebrating all the great work Nick and Ana do for our patients! When asked about their favorite part of Hospice social work, Nick and Ana shared.

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

Edmonds et al (2021) found that when a social worker was involved in a palliative care consultation, whole-person care components were more likely to be addressed, including addressing psychological (82% vs 18%) and spiritual needs (92% vs 8%) and documenting advance directives (90% vs 10%). Palliative care social work has come a long way.

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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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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Chamberlain University’s Master of Social Work (MSW) degree program receives Initial Accreditation through 2030 by the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Commission on Accreditation (COA).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

While pay-per-visit is illegal in the nursing field in Oregon, Oregon law is silent on this model for other specialties like physical therapy, occupational therapy and social work. [The JV] could lead to reduced services as well as caregiver burnout if they force our members to move to a pay-per-visit model.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

These can combine social work, nutritional counseling, navigation, financial advocacy, nursing, palliative medicine, psychology and pain management with traditional oncology. ” Supportive oncology programs integrate a range of services to meet cancer patients’ multidimensional needs.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 13, 2024

National Social Work Month Social workers are often called the unsung heroes of health care. That’s because most social workers don’t approach their careers with an eye toward accolades”, Ketchum said. “We To honor these heroes, we celebrate National Social Work Month every March. But it’s not for me.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

As far back as 2006, the hospice industry saw more social workers leave than any other health care sector, according to a study from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2025

Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little exposure to hospice or palliative care during their training, complicating providers recruitment efforts. A 2018 study showed that most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

One strategy that some hospices have adopted is to involve more social workers in case management while trying to stay in that 13-25 patient range.

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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.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2025

For years, I hesitated to make the jump from social work to nursing. I became a social worker to help people, and nursing offered a more direct way to do it. But these nurses were more like case managers; we’d work side-by-side, me handling the social work side of a case and them managing the medical and insurance side.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Spiritual care, social work and a lot of the disciplines that really don’t exist within a lot of traditional primary care providers are disciplines that hospice and palliative care providers can bring to the table,” Banach told Palliative Care News.

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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.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

In addition to quantifiable financial pressure, in-home elder care has other costs for caregivers, according to Ellen Carbonell, LCSW, caregiver programs consultant in the department of Social Work and Community Health at RUSH University Medical Center, told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Integrating doula sources can foster collaborative , goal-concordant care as well as improve quality, according to Jessica Curd, PhD candidate with the Indiana University’s School of Social Work and assistant professor at Ball State University.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Personal care and social work referrals will also end. The home health and hospice will also cease to accept patient referrals from the senior housing community for those who require personal care attendant services as well as case management/social work service referrals, according to local news.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Rutgers-Samaritan collaboration, in particular, is focused on bolstering clinical rotations and hands-on training opportunities for Rutgers-Camden students in nursing, social work and psychology.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The funds will be used to pay for on-call services and a part-time professional with a master’s degree in social work, she said. The grant enables Sierra to fund expenses that cannot be covered with current income streams and offers broader, higher-quality care to patients, according to Tipton.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

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.

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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.

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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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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

So productivity cannot be as robust for some of the social work, chaplain or nurse visits. “Both Medicare and managed care don’t reimburse appropriately to cover the cost of salaries and education in palliative care,” McInnes said. The time it takes with palliative care visits can be much longer than the typical home health visit.

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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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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

Most medical, nursing, pharmacy and social work students receive little exposure to hospice or palliative care during their training. And even if the bill does reach the White House for signature, additional legislative action would be necessary to appropriate the necessary funds. But the need is great.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

In addition to hospice, Midland Health at Home provides social work services, skilled nursing and rehabilitative therapies, and other home health services. The health system’s hospice reach grew in 2022 when its home health arm, Midland Health at Home, formed a partnership with Calvert Home Health.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

Whether an organization is providing palliative care as part of an interdisciplinary team, or if it includes nursing or social work documentation, a palliative platform builds in the flexibility for care providers to offer care and bill for their services in the current dynamic landscape.

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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

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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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2023

So it’s not going to fix all of our workforce issues in two years or anything like that, but it would be a huge, really significant boost to the workforce across our specialties, whether it’s social work training or nurse or physician training. I believe it has more than a chance.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

HealthFlex provides home health, hospice, palliative care, social work, and personal care. Oakland, California-based Healthflex has made Inc.’s s list several years running. The company reached No. 2,299 this year, achieving growth of 255%.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Social Workers: The Glue of Home Healthcare Social work is a sector within the world of healthcare that is aimed at meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, and communities. Social workers provide support and act as advocates for patients who are working through psychological, health, family, and financial struggles.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Social Workers: The Glue of Home Healthcare Social work is a sector within the world of healthcare that is aimed at meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, and communities. Social workers provide support and act as advocates for patients who are working through psychological, health, family, and financial struggles.

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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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Aging Life Care Association

APRIL 15, 2025

As a Social Worker with over 30 years of experienceprimarily in the field of Aging Life Care managementIve accumulated countless thoughts and observations over the years. Words Matter: Elevating Our Language, Elevating Our Profession By Mary Ann Buckley, LCSW-C Words can do so much.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

The key to effectively addressing these needs is a comprehensive interdisciplinary care approach, which includes disease-specific specialists, in conjunction with palliative care and social work.”

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