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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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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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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

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. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Tim 07:37 I was going to say the terminology really came from the legal literature that we kind of adopted, I think in that 2017 statement. But I remember very clearly, not too long after the 2017 statement was published, our office administrative assistant said, hey Tim, you got a phone call from someone I didn’t recognized.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” So, in 2017 Global Partners in Care moved from NHPCO and is now affiliated with the Center for Hospice Care.”

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

A lack of trained hospice and palliative care professionals in rural regions also presents a barrier to access. The legislation has taken a circuitous route through Congress in recent years, repeatedly reintroduced without passing since 2017.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

The Colorado-based hospice provider began offering PACE programming in 2017. Case in point, Virginia-based Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago. The nonprofit hospice is part of senior living and health care organization Goodwin Living.

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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Just to give you an idea of the volume involved, In 2007 there were 9,024 Medicare home health agencies , and by 2017 that number had increased to 11, 593 agencies. This shows that approximately 257 new home health agencies were opening and becoming Medicare certified each year from 2007-2017. billion in 2001 to $18.3 billion in 2012.