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DHGE-CommonSpirit Health Social Work Fellowship to Include Hospice, Health Equity Training

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As the hospice and palliative care workforce dwindles, some stakeholders are hard at work to develop career paths for staff in related disciplines, including social work. The program is designed to support social workers in the early years of working in the field and develop smooth pathways to licensure.

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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

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They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.

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Oregon Regulators Review Compassus, Providence JV Amid Labor Union Concerns

Hospice News

Compassus, a portfolio company of the private equity firm Towerbrook Capital Partners and the health system Ascension Health, provides home health, home infusion, palliative and hospice care across 30 states. The home-based provider also offers advanced care management and skilled nursing facility-at-home services.

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‘Upgrading’ the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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Wladkowski, the Larry and Patty Benz Professor and an associate professor of social work at Bowling Green State University. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.

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Hospice Case Manager Workloads Correlate With Longer Stays, Profitability

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Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Length of stay is an important metric from both a clinical and business standpoint.

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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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The health care system, in both private and public settings, that is engaged with financing, managing, and providing palliative and hospice care must directly address the issue of racism, discrimination, and disparities, particularly among marginalized underserved non-Hispanic Blacks,” authors stated in the study.

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Incorporating Palliative Care in Hospice: The Tech Perspective

Hospice News

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care.