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Palliative Care Providers Build Stronger Referral Relationships to Improve Breast Cancer Patient Outcomes

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per 100,000 females between 2018 and 2022, the research found. For instance, social workers can help connect patients and their families with financial and psychosocial resources and community support groups. Palliative care’s major referral hurdles, key selling points More than 3.97

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Palliative Care Patients Receiving Psychosocial Support More Likely to Choose Hospice

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Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020. They found that patients who utilized social worker, psychologist and/or chaplain services chose to forgo aggressive treatments in their final days more often than those who had not, according to results published in the journal Oncology.

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Earlier Palliative Care Yields Higher ROI

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Beginning in 2018, WellSpan began to test that theory by examining financial metrics associated with its palliative care services, with a focus on cost savings. The earlier a patient receives palliative care, the larger the return on investment, an analysis by the Pennsylvania-based health system WellSpan Health has found.

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HAP Foundation, NORC: Structural Racism Impedes Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

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Roughly 82% of Medicare decedents in 2018 were Caucasian, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. If there was someone like a social worker or patient advocate who could listen to their concerns and help them, it might make their situation better. were Hispanic; 1.8% were Asian; and only 0.4%

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This tracks with available data. Resurrecting PCHETA.

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How an Advance Care Planning Bill Could Impact Hospice and Medicare

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If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization. House of Representatives by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).

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Discrimination Fears Deter LGBTQ+ Patients From Advance Care Planning

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A 2018 AARP study found that 60% of the LGBTQ+ community is concerned about a lack of sensitivity to their needs among health care providers. 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.