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The Art of Servicing Others: Celebrating Hospice Social Workers.

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March is Social Workers Appreciation Month! I wanted to take a moment to especially recognize and honor a specific group of Social Workers that make an enormous difference in the end-of-life journey: Our Hospice Social Workers! Hospice Social Workers Make a Difference.

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Unionized Hospice Workers Reach Agreement with Providence Health System Amid Growing Trend

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Hospices that are affiliated with larger health systems, like Providence, may be more likely to see staff participate in labor unions. The Providence hospice workers include 130 registered nurses, social workers, and other staff who joined the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in January 2023.

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The Care Team Steps into Indiana with 1st Care Acquisition

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The Care Team offers home-based care that includes hospice, nursing and occupational, physical and speech therapy services, as well as medical social workers. Established in 2016, 1st Care provides home health and hospice in the Indianapolis area and surrounding counties across Central Indiana.

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Frontline Honors: Richard Honzel, Angels Grace Hospice, LCC

Hospice News

Hospice News caught up with Honzel to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. HSPN: What drew you to the Hospice Care industry? It made a lasting impression and after returning to school and becoming a nurse I suppose I rather gravitated toward this field.

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Adventist Health Expands Hospice Footprint, Services in California

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AHHMC offers services exclusively in the home setting, but plans to provide care in local nursing facilities and among inpatients at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast Hospital, according to Miller. The program now is staffed by one full-time and one part-time hospice nurse, as well as a chaplain, home health aides, and a medical social worker.

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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

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The hospice provider has plans on the horizon to extend its geographic reach in the state as well as in Pennsylvania. Guaranteed’s technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff.

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Hospice Case Manager Workloads Correlate With Longer Stays, Profitability

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Historically, caseloads for hospice nurse case managers have hovered around 10 to 12 patients, but these numbers have been trending upwards. Among the hospices that BerryDunn surveyed, 88% of the best performers kept case managers’ workloads between 13 to 18. Whereas once that increases, you can no longer maintain that.

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