2016 Hospice care Social worker 
Hospice News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.
Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2024
Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. CMS introduced SIA in 2016.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Length of stay is an important metric from both a clinical and business standpoint.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. If a family can’t withstand these burdens, the patient may have to receive care in a facility to ensure their needs are met.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Under the NHPCO umbrella, the Center for Hospice Care became a partner in the program in 2008, Ahern said. “It
Hospice News
APRIL 3, 2024
She will oversee a hospice average daily census in the high hundreds, across four states and that size organization falls into the upper tier of mid-size providers and has us positioned for expansion.” The company’s roughly 7,000 employees provide care to an average daily census of more than 11,000 patients.
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