Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the United States, about 177,360 children have conditions that warrant palliative care on an annual basis, according to the 2015 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” published by the National Academies Press.

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Solace

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Social worker and Death Deck co-creator Lisa Pahl agrees and says Carter’s announcement, like his openness about his cancer treatment in 2015, is an opportunity for more understanding of hospice. “I

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week social worker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist. Our physicians are generally uncomfortable with those conversations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. Has this patient been out of bed? ” She didn’t know.

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 2, 2023

In 2021, some 22% of people age 12 and up had used illegal drugs in the past year — up from 18% in 2015, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Between 1999 to 2021, drug-involved overdose deaths grew by 533%, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 17, 2023

When she transferred to the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in 2015, Thomas launched the program there and uniquely tailored it to the USC staff. She first introduced her own version of the crisis intervention tool in 2013, while working as a nurse manager in the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Medicine Center at Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. I just want to highlight some work.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. That’s what Malaz is going to talk about. Malaz: Yeah.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Payment streams lack what’s needed to support the palliative workforce of clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers. ACAC was instrumental to the development of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) project that took place between 2011 and 2015 piloted by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And I’m just so grateful that we have our interdisciplinary team, including a social worker and spiritual care provider, to help do a lot of that support for patients and families. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there. Kara 10:12 Yep. And I agree.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After one of Boyd’s clients, an older African American woman, suffered double strokes, a hospital social worker assumed that she had no family and no private insurance. The Care Plan began operation in 2015 to serve these clients. For Black and Brown people, misperceptions and stereotypes often hinder access to quality care.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. You need to, and, and to say, well, you know, you can talk to the social worker anytime or you can talk to our chaplain anytime. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling.

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 18, 2024

In 2015, University of Illinois Health invested $250,000 to establish housing for 26 unhoused people for one year in an attempt to connect people with case managers and ongoing medical care, instead of relying on the emergency department. In 2015, system leaders thought 75 homeless people had utilized the emergency department.

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