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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Care coordination between providers: Thyme Care coordinates with a members oncologist, primary care physician and other specialists to ensure everyone has the right information at the right time to make informed care decisions. Thyme Cares comprehensive approach to cancer care is particularly important for palliative care needs.

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Hunterdon Hospice’s Relaunches Trauma-Informed Bereavement Program

Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

These deaths can be traumatizing and bring on complicated grief experiences, with some individuals needing greater support compared to other types of losses, according to Laura Suozzo, licensed clinical social worker and bereavement coordinator at Hunterdon Hospice. “We Their sadness is so raw and painful.

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

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Improved patient and staff satisfaction are among the most significant returns on investment for hospices that are pouring greater resources into trauma-informed training. This is according to Amber Ash, pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker at Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve.

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Awareness, Education Keys to Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient. In order to provide trauma-informed care, we need to first give it to ourselves.

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‘Small But Significant’ Keys to Amplifying Hospice Grief Support

Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Its twofold as to how weve reached out and sought getting access and information into the community not just to the residents, but also to the service providers, Rhiannon told Hospice News. Its about having that support and framework to recognize an issue and point to a resource.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate.

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Three Things to Expect When Heading Home for Hospice Care

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JANUARY 12, 2025

The POC includes information about needed medications, services, medical supplies, and equipment, and outlines a schedule of visits from the doctor, nurse, medical social worker, home health aide, chaplain, and volunteers. Please contact us for more information.

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Hospice Social Worker position available

High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Hospice Social Worker in our northern catchment area. As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. 454 Glen street.

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End-of-Life Doulas’ Growing Value Proposition in Hospice

Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Integrating doula sources can foster collaborative , goal-concordant care as well as improve quality, according to Jessica Curd, PhD candidate with the Indiana University’s School of Social Work and assistant professor at Ball State University. There’s a huge variety even within the scope of what makes a doula who they are.

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2022

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

1 Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers (July 11). One seldom-discussed aspect of this year’s pervasive labor shortage was the number of social workers who had left the field. Social workers cited a lack of employer engagement as a leading cause of burnout and turnover, sources told Hospice News.

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NHPCO: CMS Did Not Account for Full Burden of Implementing HOPE Tool

Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

The agency also did not take into account the work of non-nursing disciplines in complying with the tool, such as social workers and chaplains, NHPCO indicated. It follows then sufficient time will be necessary to enable this development and ensure a seamless transition to HOPE.”

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In Times of Overwhelm as a Nurse and Citizen, Begin with One Intentional Act at a Time

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MARCH 3, 2025

Hui-Wen (Alina) Sato, MSN, MPH, RN, CCRN With the recent devastation and loss around our local Los Angeles wildfires as well as our countrys political disarray, one of the most difficult things about trying to remain empathetic, engaged, and informed as an individual and a nurse has been a sense of utter overwhelmedness.

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Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children

Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

Providing trauma-informed grief training to staff and volunteers working with these children is a pivotal element, Drescher indicated. The first step in providing a trauma-informed camp is by prescreening campers,” Drescher said. These types of losses can be difficult for children to understand and grieve, she indicated.

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How Northeast Georgia Medical Center Rebuilt Its Community-Based Palliative Program

Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Rather, they wanted to provide clear, understandable information that enabled the patient to make reasonable, informed choices about their care. The Northeast Georgia model provides a nurse practitioner, who works under the advice of a physician, and a social worker. That staff oversees a patient census of 140.

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How an Advance Care Planning Bill Could Impact Hospice and Medicare

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization. House of Representatives by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).

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Palliative Care Startups Require Creativity, Flexibility

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We have strategically launched fee-for-service (FFS) initiatives in key locations, showcasing our care model’s emphasis on integrating clinical and social support to address the diverse needs of our patients,” she told Palliative Care News. One of the most significant hurdles to success is inadequate reimbursement.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. David: Yeah.

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Contessa’s Lessons Learned on Risk-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That model is a mix of in-person and virtual visits, nurse practitioners, RNs, social workers and community health workers,” Baumgardner said. “I “We’re in talks with a couple of other payers and also joint venture partners about expanding our value-base; we’re really focusing on that right now.

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Federal Legislation Would Create National Strategy on Grief

Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. This would include social workers, grief counselors, and chaplains, among others. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospices Strategize Sustainable Growth for Veteran Programs

Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

It takes ample financial resources to fuel a trauma-informed care delivery approach and ensure that staff are trained in the unique challenges that veteran populations face at the end of life, Graveran said. So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive. Graveran is also a veteran.

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HAP Foundation, NORC: Structural Racism Impedes Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Some participants said they were treated badly or disrespectfully, but they didn’t have anyone to talk to about it.

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Hospices Ramping Up Caregiver Support

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

McCaffrey is a retired clinical social worker, who most recently served patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Many variables can impact how well a hospice reaches caregivers and informs them of available resources , Hochanade said.

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Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’

Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

The model uses information gathered from a patient’s genome to plan for care, treatment and services, and to some extent, predict a likely health trajectory, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care.

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Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative professionals are among the health care providers with room for improvement in their gender affirming practices, according to Zachary Fried, licensed clinical social worker and training supervisor of Optum at Home, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. Alex 01:39 And C ara Wallace, who is a hospice social worker and endowed chair and professor in the St. And a social worker or a chaplain will say, wait a minute, can I go in?

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VNS Health Expands Hospice Education for Underserved Asian Americans

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’s really having the team approach with our nurses, social workers, providers and counselors so that people don’t feel like they’re alone. Early referral is really important and sometimes people don’t get that information until the last days. There’s so much more that the [hospice] team can offer.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

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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Dartmouth Project Seeks to Determine Best Timing for Serious Illness Talks

Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The downsides, however, were that workforce disruptions made it harder to incorporate other members of the care team like social workers and nurse navigators directly into the conversation themselves, said Wasp and Cullinan.

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Asian-American Communities Face ‘Digital Divide’ in Health Equity, Hospice Care

Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Though increased virtual health care access can help hospice providers reach patients upstream, the trend may be worsening disparities and outcomes among Asian American populations, according to Victoria Tsze, an outpatient hospice social worker at Tucson Medical Center (TMC) Hospice.

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How Palliative Care Is Changing in Today’s Health Care Environment

Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

We need to be really thoughtful about how we work with primary care providers and utilize palliative care experts to better train and inform our primary care providers,” he said. She also underscored workforce shortages.

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Deathwives Founders: Death Doulas Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps, Ease Strain on Hospice Staff

Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. It’s also an opportunity to advocate patient needs to hospice staff by sharing information learned during sessions. We wanted to empower them with information before they were in the midst of dealing with death. Carroll: We met while I was teaching a workshop.

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Nonprofit Startup Emmaus Catholic Hospice: Supportive Culture Key to ‘Rapid Growth’

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We have a social worker, medical director, chaplain services, nursing care and nursing assistants, and bereavement and volunteer coordinators. My concern is still around the ability to recruit health care workers with the environment of nursing and doctor turnover and burnout. Our volunteer program is particularly robust.

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Hospice Executives Laser-Focused on Regulation, See Change on Horizon

Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Brubaker Miller entered the field as a social worker in 1993 and has held leadership positions at hospice organizations for the last 14 years. Hospices are often undergoing multiple audits simultaneously, with auditors examining different types of information. Once that consistency is achieved, it will better inform their roles.

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Hospice Social Worker Part-Time Position Available

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JUNE 27, 2023

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Part-Time Hospice Social Worker in our Northern Clinical Care Team serving Essex County, Northern Hamilton County, Southern Franklin County, and the Southeast corner of St. The post Hospice Social Worker Part-Time Position Available appeared first on High Peaks Hospice.

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Health Systems Pursue Palliative Care Skill-Building Initiatives

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This kind of information can provide a blueprint for how clinical education can be more oriented around patient needs, as well as around pain and symptom management, Bowman said at a recent conference held in collaboration with the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).

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Hospice Worker, Patient Safety Concerns Impact Access in Underserved Communities

Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Navigating safety concerns, risks In addition to the risk of crime and violence, workers may have other concerns, such as the ability to reach patients in urban communities in a timely fashion, according to Megan Carrol, social worker at Ascension Illinois – Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care. based in New York.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Marylander is also a licensed clinical social worker and practiced law for 35 years prior to stepping into health care. An important part of any bereavement program is ensuring that families are informed that these supportive services and resources are available and accessible to them, White stated.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. State and local governments have also enacted a range of policies around this issue, including some that involve access to respite care and services from community health workers.

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Key Research Trends: Long Hospice Stays, Palliative Care Save Medicare Dollars

Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

But providers can also benefit from considering data that comes from outside their organizations to identify prevailing trends, inform their marketing efforts and guide their decision making. The data will inform continuing discussions of the disconnect between the ways providers perceive hospice lengths of stay and the views of regulators.

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Inside Kansas’ 5-Year Plan to Expand Palliative Care

Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Bring advance care planning and serious illness planning to all Kansans so they can make informed choices about care and express their wishes and preferences as a treatment plan is developed. Improving the state’s understanding of palliative care and how it differs from hospice. Access was a high hurdle. Access is only one of the hurdles.

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Live-In Care Packages – What Social Workers Need to Know

HomeTouch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This article will provide social workers with the information they need to understand how […] The post Live-In Care Packages – What Social Workers Need to Know appeared first on Hometouch. Live-in care is becoming an increasingly popular way for those in need of extra help to remain in their own homes.

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Hospice Providers Weigh Labor Gains Against Rising Costs

Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2023

While the public companies do not represent the entire industry, their obligation to keep investors informed regarding their financial performance can provide insights into larger trends at a time when providers of all sizes are reporting astronomical labor expenses. But the strides have come at a cost.

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Samaritan Health Services, Laurel Brook Rehab Collaborate on Customized Palliative Care Model

Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

According to Dr. Stephen Goldfine, chief medical officer at Samaritan, the model emphasizes imparting truthful, practical information, allowing patients to make more informed decisions. “As The company did receive some funding from the state of New Jersey to fund the social worker portion of the Chronic Illness Support model.

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