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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

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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.”.

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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

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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.

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Homeland at Home Launches Community-Based Palliative Care Program

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The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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The Case for Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. Case in point, the U.S.

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

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

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

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Hospices Leverage School-Based Partnerships to Strengthen Bereavement Care

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We’ve communicated with local school counselors and social workers in the area to get the word out to the kids they work with and ask them what they see in their schools and what we can do with our grief programs specifically to better serve those kids.”