Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

These were the driving factors that fueled HPCMV to seek out Medicare certification after nearly four decades of thriving on philanthropic support, according to Stauffer Wozniak. Can you elaborate on what led to the Medicare certification process nearly 40 years after the organization’s establishment and some of the nuances involved?

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

People who were seriously ill and their caregivers had to contend with many important issues and events occurring simultaneously. Roughly 82% of Medicare decedents in 2018 were Caucasian, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Because Black lives don’t matter. were Hispanic; 1.8% were Asian; and only 0.4%

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Hospice Social Worker in our northern catchment area. As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. 454 Glen street.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers. We bring insights.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. Most participants are White and well-resourced.

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High Peaks Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Part-Time Hospice Social Worker in our Northern Clinical Care Team serving Essex County, Northern Hamilton County, Southern Franklin County, and the Southeast corner of St. Attend or assist at events and services, some of which may be during evening or weekend hours.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Sarguni: And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatments. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. That’s the problem. What are other options?

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? We have medical social workers who support the patients.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States. Reminisce about cherished life events. Nursing is just the start. Home health aides for personal care. Comfort medications delivered to the home.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Do you have questions that keep you up at night about your current volunteer program? Questions such as: Why did the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate volunteer involvement in hospice as a condition of participation in the Medicare Hospice Benefit? Highlight them in your social media postings and newsletters.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

Actually I should have been a social worker. Dying is not a medical event. We tend to think it is because we associate it with diseased and medicine and hospitals, but dying is not a physical event. It is not a medical event. It’s an emotional, communal social event.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. Greg: Yeah, great question. Eric: And Susan?

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

They’re associated with about 90% of deaths in the Medicare population. ” And you miss this opportunity to say, “Hey, this is a major event in this person’s life.” Bob: We used a set of nine conditions that have been used by the Dartmouth Atlas Project to study end of life care.

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NHPCO

MARCH 6, 2022

Conference Marks 40 Years of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This year marks 40 years since Congress passed the legislation that created the Medicare hospice benefit, making the conference location just a few miles from the Capitol especially appropriate for this year. For Immediate Release: March 6, 2022. Alexandria, Va.,

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