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Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs

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This involves strong communication and collaboration across both adult and pediatric clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers. Access to palliative care can help support a patient and their family through several iterations of physical, emotional and financial changes as they enter the adult health care space, he stated.

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

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A dire need exists to be able to better support physicians, hospital discharge planners and social workers on culturally relevant approaches to care at home and having end-of-life conversations with minority families and patients. You cant just pick up a model of care and drop it into a different city or region.

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Congress Takes Up Bill to Expand Advance Care Planning

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In enacted, the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would permit social workers to conduct ACP services, remove co-pays and patient fees, and promote provider education about associated billing codes. Warner (D-Va.) The bill also contains provisions to improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization.

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Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Break Down Advance Care Planning Barriers

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Unfortunately, most patients do not routinely make advance plans for their care in the event that they are diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness,” Collins said in a statement. The bill outlines two reporting requirements that would accomplish goals in removing hurdles on the provider side.

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Hospices Strategize Sustainable Growth for Veteran Programs

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We’ve gotten creative in doing events that benefit veteran causes and raised money through all these different things that are put into the pool of helping us with the costs of running our veteran programs — which is primarily the staffing cost,” Graveran told Hospice News. “We

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Hospices Ramping Up Caregiver Support

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McCaffrey is a retired clinical social worker, who most recently served patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Applying a broader mix of in-person and online events can help hospices identify caregivers’ specific needs, he stated. “We’ve

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Customizing a Palliative Program to Patient, Payer Priorities

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The Wisconsin-based hospice and palliative care provider Unity has designed its program with the intent of seeking value-based contracts in the long term, Alisa Gerke, the agency’s executive director, said at the NHPCO event. Social workers and chaplains provide services on a PRN basis, Gerke said.

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