End-of-life care Home care Social work 
AT Home Care & Hospice
MARCH 1, 2024
National Social Work Month Some patients can head home after an office visit or hospitalization, pick up their prescriptions, and manage follow-up appointments and care. When they do, medical social workers can provide valuable insight and access to resources. Others may need a lot more help.
Hospice News
JULY 25, 2023
Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 2, 2023
The focus on gathering data to both measure and understand gaps in access and quality signal an increased drive toward reducing disparities in end-of-life care — a goal regulators and hospice providers can agree upon, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Hospice and Home Care of Juneau shutters. Alaska-based Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) recently announced its closure, citing high staffing costs and lack of clinicians. HHCJ had two hospice and 17 home health patients on its services when the closure took effect on October 19. Census Bureau.
Hospice News
AUGUST 5, 2024
The Compassionate Care Act would establish a nationwide public education campaign to educate the people in the United States about the importance of advance care planning, including grants and pilot initiatives to educate students in medical, nursing, social work and other related fields about end-of-life discussions and care.
Hospice News
MAY 25, 2022
The excess death, serious illness and related suffering wrought by COVID has been a stark reminder that the country needs hospice and palliative care expertise woven into all aspects of our health care system,” Baird told Hospice News in an email. These labor pressures are a longstanding problem made much worse by the pandemic.
GeriPal
MARCH 13, 2025
But what I remember from that is at the end of your week long rotation, Michael, everybody gets a chance if they wanted to sit down with Cicely Saunders, social work nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. Eric 19:48 Yeah.
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