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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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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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Several Large Hospice Providers See Leadership Transitions

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Lamb joined Pennants board in 2019 as chairman of its auditing committee. Established in 1988, AAHPM is a professional organization for hospice and palliative care clinicians, social workers and other health and spiritual care providers in the space. Shifts at Pennants Board The Pennant Group Inc.s from 2008 to 2020.

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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. Census Bureau.

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Hospice Clinician Wages Rising at Slower Rate; Turnover Falling

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For the first time since 2019, year-over-year turnover rates for RNs, LPNs, HCAs and Administrative Support Staff in hospices declined, after steadily increasing and peaking in 2022,” HCS indicated in a statement. Social worker wages went up 3.78%, as well as a 2.58% increase for chaplains.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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Capital Caring launched its Primary Care at Home service in 2019. The program includes house calls by doctors, nurse practitioners, and social workers who specialize in caring for seriously ill seniors, home-based diagnostic testing, telehealth and other services. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Rush Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers Program

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The C4C Program RUSH realized that it had a unique opportunity to address the issues caregivers face, and established the C4C program in 2019, with the aid of a grant from the RRF Foundation for Aging. Therefore, caregivers are prone to developing illnesses and conditions of their own, which limits their ability to care for anyone else.”

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