Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

About 20% of their patients receive care in their private residence or assisted living facilities. The company also employs social workers to assist patients with psychosocial needs and offers services to address social determinants of health.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

There are new training models, like combined internal medicine and geriatrics residency programs, that include more teaching about geriatrics and clinical experiences in settings like the home, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They also saw a 7% decline in assisted-living facility admissions. The company has instituted a hiring and retention bonus strategy focused primarily on nurses, nurse managers, home health care aides, and social workers, which includes payments to employees ranging from $2,000 to $15,000.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. jump from assisted living facilities. The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated. VITAS saw nursing home admissions rise 9.4%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care. New Jersey-based Valley Health System is partnering with Family of Caring Healthcare to offer palliative services to their patients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. Now, they were 2,000 miles away up until about six months ago, when which I moved them close.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Attendee 15: And so I’m most hopeful for our younger generation so that I can retire.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

These one-time retention bonuses are designed to fortify the company’s clinical teams, including licensed nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. Pennant is also starting to see occupancy rates improve among its skilled nursing and assisted living referral partners. .

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

VITAS earlier this month completed its $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. The initiative included a one-time retention payment that ranges from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Lifematters is the first choice in home care for individuals, families, doctors, nurses, social workers, hospitals, and independent- and assisted-living facilities, and has garnered recognition in these areas from local and national award programs. metropolitan area.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could even segment this list by target referral sources in each part of the senior living and senior care spectrum. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. You can also think outside the box when it comes to potential referral sources.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You could even segment this list by target referral sources in each part of the senior living and senior care spectrum. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. You can also think outside the box when it comes to potential referral sources.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains. In addition to medical care like pain management and assistance with daily activities, the hospice team supports the emotional and spiritual journey of a terminal illness.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Their social worker calls with four new referrals to begin hospice services. Take a deep breath, respect the social worker who must have reasons behind their expressed needs and wants, and dig deeper. Consider this scenario: You are an Admissions Director at a new assisted living memory care unit.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 17, 2022

One of the primary benefits of hospice care is the ability to receive care wherever your loved one is, whether that is in your home or in the comfort of an assisted living facility. This may involve working with family members to create a home living space that is comfortable and appropriate for their loved one.

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Seasons Hospice

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Hospice care is generally available to individuals diagnosed with a terminal illness and a prognosis of six months or less to live, as certified by a physician. It is not restricted by age, and patients can receive hospice care in various settings, including their own homes, assisted living facilities, or hospice centers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. Brett Ringold ( 08:11 ): Yeah, absolutely.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

These deaths can be traumatizing and bring on complicated grief experiences, with some individuals needing greater support compared to other types of losses, according to Laura Suozzo, licensed clinical social worker and bereavement coordinator at Hunterdon Hospice. “We Their sadness is so raw and painful.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

Honzel: Back when I was working as a social worker in an assisted living program I was able to witness the comfort and compassion a hospice nurse provided to one of our residents and her family. Hospice News caught up with Honzel to discuss their time in the hospice care industry.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Owens: We are a home hospice provider and take care of patients wherever they call home, whether it’s with family or in their own home or at a skilled nursing, memory care or assisted living facility. My concern is still around the ability to recruit health care workers with the environment of nursing and doctor turnover and burnout.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Marylander is also a licensed clinical social worker and practiced law for 35 years prior to stepping into health care. One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jasmine. Jasmine: Thank you. Happy to be here, Alex.

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Hope Hospice

MARCH 12, 2021

In honor of Social Work Appreciation Month this March, we celebrate our wonderful social work team. Most nursing facilities and assisted living communities continue to restrict visits by outsiders, except for medically essential visits or when a patient is actively dying.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. I just want to highlight some work.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

Most patients do not view this as giving up, but as coming to peace with their prognosis and deciding to live the best possible life for the time that remains. These professionals are available to patients around-the-clock, but they are not necessarily staffed at a patient’s home or care facility twenty-four hours a day.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident. You need to, and, and to say, well, you know, you can talk to the social worker anytime or you can talk to our chaplain anytime. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling. They’re not gonna do that.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. Here’s a Meals on Wheels handout and here’s a fall prevention handout, and we don’t have a social worker. Susan: “…I want to live independently. Greg: Yeah, great question. I got into this 31 years ago.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. If you are independent living, yes.

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