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. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

When you’re looking to build this service you have to have enough people to choose from, and we are really struggling right now in the nursing workforce, social workers, and other support staff – especially since the pandemic hit,” Wodatch told Hospice News. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Medical social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly increase, but in terms of productivity tended to have larger caseloads, with a national average of 29.15 These one-time retention bonuses are designed to fortify the company’s clinical teams, including licensed nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 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.) The bill would also expand continuing education and career development programs and incentives in these fields.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company offers palliative care on an inpatient and outpatient basis in addition to its home-based services, using an interdisciplinary model that includes physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, coordinators, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care. Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Phoenix Children’s palliative program began in 2009 and includes nine physicians, social workers, mental health therapists, child life specialists and bereavement support professionals. It’s an important skill set we can teach this generation of learners for long-term viability and sustainability of this work.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

For individuals who take part in the program, they are required to be visited by a nurse and a social worker once per month. Most of the additional benefit of the program, an estimated 70% of participation, aligns with the social services offerings: transportation, housing, and food.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Gender-affirming hospice care hard to find Not only are hospices in rural regions often stretched thin in terms of available clinical resources, they can also face regulatory challenges around providing gender-affirming training for staff. “It’s looking at the real issues of this broader community in a whole different context.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I completed an emergency medicine residency program and I really saw a gap in both knowledge and clinical skills in terms of talking to people with life-limiting illnesses about how it affects them. It’s making sense of what a person wants and is hoping for in terms of their long-term trajectory. Our resources are limited.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Not only have daily clinical visits in the last week of life improved, so too have bedside presence from other interdisciplinary team members such as social workers and chaplains, she stated. Identifying patients a little sooner with technology can allow those patients to have longer and more visits at the end of life,” Arnold said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems can be worth the financial investment in terms of building operational efficiencies that benefit patient quality, according to Laura Templeton, executive vice president and COO of Compassus.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

(NYSE: CHEM), recently launched a targeted hiring and retention wellness initiative designed to ease workforce strains and increase capacity for patient care, paving the way for sustainable long-term growth. The bonuses for 12 months of continuous employment range from $2,000 to $15,000 per licensed health care professional. .

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

The term “cultural humility” emerged in the late 1990s. Even the phrase “cultural competence” itself may be an oversimplification, according to Joseph Bleiberg, lead licensed social worker with the hospice care team at VNS Health. Some use the terms “lavender family” or “chosen family” to describe these relationships.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed. The Care Team offers home-based care that includes hospice, nursing and occupational, physical and speech therapy services, as well as medical social workers. Similar to national trends, demographics are accelerating demand for hospice in the Hoosier State.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

However, researchers should pay more attention to potential risks in ongoing research, according to Ladybird Morgan, a registered nurse and social worker for the palliative care company Mettle Health and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project. “I He is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, in recent years palliative care has been gaining ground, as more payers, providers and patients begin to realize what these services can do for them in terms of reducing costs and improving outcomes. But increasingly, those providers are working together to bridge gaps in care and cover all the bases in terms of care settings.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Because spirituality is so strong in the Black community, it’s important to build trust and form relationships in faith groups in terms of bridging the gap.” Spiritual care is not directly reimbursable work in the same way as clinicians or social workers are getting reimbursed [and] that can create great barriers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

In New Jersey, a partnership between a health services company and a nursing home is offering a new approach to long-term illness, tailoring palliative care treatment plans to individual patients. The doctor and patient can discuss how to achieve that goal despite the longer-term prognosis, he said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It’s been a game changer for us in terms of being able to provide this continuum of care.” Trinity Health in 2022 convened a panel of palliative care experts that included pharmacists, social workers, and providers in home health, hospice and primary care, among others.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 13, 2024

He became such a good friend, and that’s when I realized I was called to do this job.” “Here for a reason” After 12 years of serving as a hospice social worker, Ketchum still feels it’s her calling. Like filling out paperwork, preparing funeral arrangements, and facilitating long-term placement needs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Competition for hospice workers has been fierce amid staffing shortages, retirements and rising cases of burnout and turnover during the pandemic. Raising pay for health workers is just one aspect of improving labor strains, but can come with difficult financial impacts for some organizations, including hospices.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At the end of this year we’ll be serving almost 1,700 patients, which would be an increase of about 2x, or 100%, in terms of our census at the beginning of 2023. And then we are measuring interventions, the outcomes in terms of interventions, so we can really tailor what we do for our patients.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator. Our program] is fiercely narrative and really focuses as much on the art of listening as the art of what we say,” Wu said.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

Adventist Health has expanded its hospice services in Mendocino Country, California, both in terms of geography and its scope of services. The program now is staffed by one full-time and one part-time hospice nurse, as well as a chaplain, home health aides, and a medical social worker. Hospice utilization reached 46.1%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan. The company also employs social workers to assist patients with psychosocial needs and offers services to address social determinants of health. Most DCEs expect a seamless transition into ACO REACH.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

In these preferred provider arrangements, the two parties can negotiate mutually beneficial terms that are customized to the needs and characteristics of their patient population. They can become members of those organizations themselves, or they can contract with them through a preferred provider network. This takes it one step further.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

.” – Chemed CFO and Executive Vice President David Williams The bonus program includes a one-time retention payment that ranges from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. To date, the pace of hiring has exceeded those expectations, according to VITAS CEO Nick Westfall.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This is still a space where we haven’t seen a dominant model/structure in terms of innovation, and also leaves a lot of gray area around reimbursement. This will likely mean further investment in data collection and analysis systems, including predictive analytics and machine learning.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, volunteers and bereavement experts provide 24/7 care. Though financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, Heartland is valued at $710 million, according to a Bloomberg report. Service animals are permitted at the inpatient hospice.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To break down those walls, social workers at Pallitus have focused on assisting patients and their families before they even make it into the building. This is reimbursement each month for all the work done by providers, physicians, nurse practitioners, RNs and social workers that’s typically non-billable time,” Dillon said. “It’s

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We often hear this kind of general term “caregiver support.” If you can’t do that, the only alternative that we have in our system is to pick up the phone and call somebody, to go to the emergency room or go to long-term care. And secondly, nurses are best at doing nursing, and social workers are best at doing social work.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Peer support crucial as bereaved children needs mount Roughly 10% to 15% of bereaved children nationwide will need more significant therapeutic care and experience negative long-term outcomes as they age, according to Burns. It’s a really important differential in terms of outcomes.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Embedding palliative care-trained social workers in hospital emergency departments can help health care providers effectively serve some of the most vulnerable patients. ED staff generally lack the time and training to provide them, and the systems in which they work are not designed to address long-term considerations.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The agency is giving careful consideration to the future of telehealth and its long-term impacts on health care, she said. Case in point, social workers left the health care field at record-high rates that exceeded pre-pandemic levels by 35%, data from the Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation Health System Tracker reflected.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These one-time retention bonuses are designed to fortify the company’s clinical teams, including licensed nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. . A few months in, the initiative appears to be bearing fruit. The company hired 172 clinicians during Q3, coupled with significantly reduced turnover. “[The

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies.

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