Hospice News

JANUARY 21, 2025

From admission to case management, that whole team of doctors, nurses, social workers, volunteers, chaplains and psychosocial support is incredibly important to sustainable care. Were definitely going to open another location in the future. House of Goshen is our first facility, and we want to duplicate this.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). Yeah, definitely learned from those, I would say, that this intervention built on our CASA trial, and I’m happy to talk more about that, for sure.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

However, researchers should pay more attention to potential risks in ongoing research, according to Ladybird Morgan, a registered nurse and social worker for the palliative care company Mettle Health and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project. “I There are definitely just basic physiological cardiac risks.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A main barrier is that clinicians, social workers and spiritual care professionals often receive little to no exposure to palliative care in the course of their training and education. There needs to be a unified definition of concurrent care as well as expansion to all children under any insurance.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

It is important for older people to receive holistic care from an interprofessional team, so not just the physician but also nurses, social workers, physical therapists, and others. What are the most important things medical students or residents need to learn about treating the aging population?

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. Last year federal legislation was proposed that, if enacted, would have advanced the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Well, so there is a debate in the field as to the definition of Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid alone is enough of a definition of Alzheimer’s. So in someone who’s cognitively healthy, having the presence of amyloid would be enough for the definition of Alzheimer’s disease. So the new criteria came out.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. Mariah 03:51 I like the SAMHSA definition as sort of a guiding definition for it, and I’m happy to read it. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition. Kate 11:33 Yeah, I mean, definitely more indirect pathways than direct.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

We have nurses, a social worker and chaplains that donate their time. It’s definitely a much more collaborative system. But it’s a beautiful model because of the lack of complication. Our volunteers actually go through a really lengthy training program and are willing to do that.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. There’s definitely a bedside element to doulaship that can help fill in gaps of hospice staff time, as well as ease caregiver burden. What areas can death doulas offer hospices the most support? Merelli: We wanted to bridge the gap to death.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the last few years since I’ve graduated we’ve definitely seen more new programs popping up across the Northeast and in Massachusetts. That is the most important thing as we think about the need for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and case managers.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. That’s definitely not ideal for anyone. The labor shortage certainly made hiring tough, because we can only offer so much in regards to pay. Luckily, we have been able to stay fully staffed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. What was your role in the process and how did you determine a need for these services? The numbers were pretty striking.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. The company cited swelling construction costs, rising inflation rates and the staffing shortage.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. Sweet Caroline. ” She didn’t know.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It was launched in 2011 for nurses and social workers in Africa to do formal training and palliative care but has now widened to include applicants such as spiritual care providers, music therapists, clinical officers, doctors and more.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care. It really plays such a huge benefit to the patient when you have a social worker or nurse come into the home, and they’re able to see things that they may not see in the office.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Nathan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We have medical social workers who support the patients. We definitely have people who were dwindling and really looking like they were coming to the end of life, and when they start getting these supportive services, they pop back up. And so the definition of family was broad. We have a psychiatrist. We have a dietician.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

It is something that I have been involved with in a past life, but I was definitely not where I would consider myself a subject matter expert. The ACO REACH model of course is provider-based organizations that offer three types of participants.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Definitely. We’re saying that whether it be across engineering to marketing, strategic partnerships, all the way to care team members from nurses, social workers, dietitians, and death doulas. Guaranteed Founder Jessica McGlory. The capital that we raised is really to be able to hire the absolute best people to join us.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The way that the physician describes, the way that the nurse describes, or the social worker, or the chaplain, all of them are going to help you identify what’s important to that patient that you should be tracking. That’s definitely one area that needs to have a seat at the table and be more integrated in.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Expanded definition of the IDT: The legislation will allow hospices, starting in 2024, to use marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and mental health counselors (MHCs) as part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. That cut was averted, protecting hospice patients and providers.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 29, 2024

Hand hygiene plays an important role within any healthcare system, but particularly within oncology, and definitely within a stem cell transplant unit,” Corbett says. This wearable technology comes in the form of a card worn along with a nurse’s ID.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

How do you talk to them about these terms and these definitions? Naomi 14:50 I definitely think, and I love Jane, how you keep coming back to the moment, because that’s all we have. There are stories that are stuck in here that need definitely. Naomi, I’m going to turn to you. Thoughts on kind of where we are.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this. Welcome, Liz.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Melissa: It’s definitely true that that’s the incentive under nonprofit and for-profit. Melissa: There definitely is, and I think one of the things with the type of research that I do and my colleagues here do is that we’re doing large population-based data, looking nationally. They both have to make money.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

By definition, statute, and regulation, hospices provide interdisciplinary care driven by patient goals. Hospice patients receive care from a team that includes doctors, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care providers, bereavement care professionals, and trained volunteers.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: We definitely have a case. Keri: Definitely, yes. Definitely a deviation. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. Eric: Three steps. Okay, I’m looking forward to this. Eric: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. To me, that’s the definition of miscommunication. Will you please answer the question for us? laughter] Eric: That was miscommunication on my part. I didn’t assign somebody to ask.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And I think what, you know, for when I was there, the asian american veterans, it definitely came up during our visits. Actually, we had to pull it up yesterday that hate crimes actually did spike during 2021, 2022, definitely for Asians. But if I were in the PCP setting or clinic, again, I would definitely use it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

While the creative process is what truly matters, we think that the outcome is guaranteed to be awesome and definitely worth sharing. Alex 00:56 Today we are delighted to welcome Wendy MacNaughton, who is a trained as a social worker and is an author and illustrator and author of how to say Goodbye, a book of visual journalism.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you. We measure all of those things.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. That’s very social worker of you to bring me in to the conversation and asking that question. Anne: Hi, guys.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

Anecdotally, as I was driving from the facility here for this session, I [received] 14 text messages of people wanting to join us; medical resources, social workers that are coming word of mouth from the people that were here today. To get one of those six months ago, I had to spend my weekend on Indeed actively looking.

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