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

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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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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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

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 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 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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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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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

Defining Palliative Care To appreciate the difference between palliative care and hospice , consider the definition of palliative care offered by the Center to Advance Palliative Care: 2 Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Either different populations, telehealth versus in person physician NP versus physician social worker. So a pretty definitive and robust study to answer that question. But what about the social workers and the chaplains? So those social workers were involved. Joe 21:16 Yes, yes.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Being knowledgeable of possible ALS symptoms in advance can help you know what to expect and prepare for the inevitable transitions of the disease. What is ALS?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. I think as a result, the NIH… It just hasn’t been on the forefront. And how does it actually work?

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I’m definitely seeing this a fair amount in our palliative care clinic with our seriously ill patients and their families, who remain highly motivated to stay away from COVID. Celebrate the work they are doing to do this when this happens! People have been very creative, having drive-by birthday celebrations at homes, etc.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. So while paying your employees more definitely impacts retention, the data shows that your caregivers are still looking for more than just pay.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places.

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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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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

MARCH 6, 2025

The team has grown to a team of seven palliative care doctors, two nurses, two social workers, a peer worker, a psychiatrist, and an interprofessional roster of home care professionals who are working in non traditional home settings to deliver palliative care. The Peach program has cared for over 1,000 clients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

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. It’s definitely not defined as ‘cultural competence,’ because as soon as we think we know everything, then we’re toast. It’s not a one-time thing.”.

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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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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

What definition of demoralization are you they? This hypothesis Played itself out in an interesting way, Ali John 11:15 Thinking about total pain and addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual issues. We had a social worker addressing social issues. Eric 11:31 And they were getting psilocybin.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Turnover remains a big risk Health care workers have increasingly dropped out of the workforce in the past few years, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH). This is in addition to widespread attrition among registered nurses, social workers, back-office staff and other professionals.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

A growing cadre of hospice and palliative care clinicians and experts are becoming proponents of psychedelic therapy when appropriate for individual patients — and their families, 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.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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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

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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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

MARCH 9, 2023

Brian: The standard definition that we take a lot, from the work of David Kissane, has been poor coping, the sense of helplessness or hopelessness, and a lack of purpose and meaning. To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. What is this?

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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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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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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