Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. So I had that to inform my caregiving. The second one we’re testing is an online educational and social support intervention. I propose that is the social worker.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If we look at some of the decks and slide presentations on the Medicare Advantage carve-in, going back to 2018, it’s the same information, and we’re still talking about impacting change. We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane: Thank you for having me. That dawned on me.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So in the VA, psychologist and a social worker and a chaplain and a doctor and a nurse are all mandated components of a palliative care team. We have a social worker.”

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

I would say the data sharing capabilities are also huge for us to have real-time information and dynamic risk stratification for patients to make decisions that normally you may not be able to make in such real-time without that information in front of you and on a dashboard. Anthony, I think this would probably be a good time.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. I think that’s going to be a continuing area of focus.” The behavioral home model for reimbursement is very appealing to us,” Androscoggin CEO Ken Albert told Hospice News at the time of the deal. “We

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But one of the things I’m really interested in is people have agency and autonomy, so we can present them with the scenarios of best case, worst case, and they will always choose what’s most important to them. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. We need that information.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” It has really made the staff, individually and as an organizational whole, approach everything they do in hospice care with a much broader, global and just overall informed perspective.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. Length of stay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. Thanks to my son Kai for playing the guitar part in 5/4 with strange chords on Riverman by Nick Drake!

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 17, 2023

This can cause intense emotional and behavioral reactions and can make it difficult to take in information. Patients experiencing fear and vulnerability associated with post-traumatic stress may not adhere to medical recommendations and may have difficulty processing information intended to help them assess treatment options.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Here are some pieces of information that you should include: What do you offer Why you’re different How you’ll care for their patients, residents, etc. The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. Just with any marketing strategy, you need a plan.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Here are some pieces of information that you should include: What do you offer. The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. Why you’re different.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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Healthy Workforce Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, if patient violence occurs more frequently during a period when a patient is told they have cancer, perhaps you could have a social worker or counselor be present or offer additional support during the period of time after. Knowledge is power but if you don’t know abuse is happening, you can’t intervene.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. The supporter might offer note-taking or they might come and help with interpreting information or they might help in doing some comparative reasoning exercises.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We are going to tackle this question and so many more about coping on this week’s podcast with Dani Chammas , a recurring GeriPal guest, psychiatrist, and palliative care doc at UCSF, and Amanda Moment , a Palliative Care Social Worker at Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dani, welcome back to GeriPal. Dani 12:05 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. Bernie: And so Alex, it was horrible.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said social worker has left since then, so it’s now just me.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people. I am not the one.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. How is this anger making me feel, think, and react?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Well, it’s not just being present, though. But from the path from novice to expert, you run across a couple of bumps in the road. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? The opportunity presented by the aging of the Baby Boomer generation should be fully realized and embraced as there is much parallel work and effort of care provided in hospice and the 4Ms.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 10, 2023

Your healthcare providers should be your primary source of information. Talking to a counselor, medical social worker, or spiritual professional can help patients unload some of their worries without putting additional strain on their community.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

I like to ask the patient and family if it’s ok to speak openly with everyone present. As a nurse who used to be in the room when patients were given their initial cancer diagnosis, I learned the importance of not overwhelming them with information. Try not to overwhelm them with too much information.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. Contact Traditions Health for More Information We hope this article has helped you better understand the role hospice care can have in caring for someone with ALS.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. His hands were gone. They’re too busy.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. Eric: A minute-and-a-half. Alex: Minute-and-a-half.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’m fully present. So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians. And a moral compass that’s informed by understanding that the world isn’t the way you see it necessarily. I mean, I can recall mentors who just by the look in their eye, their demeanor.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. Agency values are for informational purposes only and are not meant to represent actual agency survey scores. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Who Completes the Survey?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. As a nurse, it might be tempting to promise the family that you will be present when their loved one dies. Again, you have access to personal and private information and it’s your duty to protect it , even from yourself! This post may contain affiliate links.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Without these vital communications in the brain cells occurring, a decline in speech, communication, concentration, information processing, and overall functions will ensue. A patient may no longer recall important information such as their current address or phone number. Speech may or may not be present.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

So whether that’s, you know, skilled nursing, physical therapy, social worker, speech therapists, all different modalities that we work closely with, which is really important factor. And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there. So we need to make sure we cover that for them.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This documentation is based on your already gathered information in their file along with statements from speaking to their support system or those who were present at their time of death. The MSW is interesting because they’re a discipline that you should ALWAYS offer if the patient lives alone.

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Shining Light Hospice

JANUARY 6, 2022

Symptoms present as hand weakness or loss of hand and finger dexterity. The hospice team typically includes a Physician, Nurses, Aides, Social Worker, and a Chaplain. Contact us today for further information. Spinal Onset. Symptom onset in the limbs is the most common type.

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