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AAHPM Board President-Elect Holly Yang: Hospice Regulators Need to Consider Perspectives of Bedside Staff

Hospice News

Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed. People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

How do you create a control tower or a population health team as many of the IDNs would call it, that oversees that group? You’re in a value-based model, you have to manage your resources and your workforce in that manner.

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Caring for Someone with ALS

Traditions Health

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. ALS can also impair the ability to think and cause significant changes to a person’s memory.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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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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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. And I’m sad to say it, but I don’t think doctors are gonna listen to a social worker. Is that how we presented ourselves? Whats in a name?

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. I’m wondering if we can think about that structured approach if I just present the case and how you all would think about it from a trauma informed. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we have somebody in the room with us. Alex 00:07 We do. Welcome back, Anne.