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Hospice News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.
GeriPal
MARCH 13, 2025
But what I remember from that is at the end of your week long rotation, Michael, everybody gets a chance if they wanted to sit down with Cicely Saunders, social work nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her.
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses.
Hospice News
JANUARY 19, 2023
Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. 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
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we have somebody in the room with us. Alex 00:07 We do. We have Anne Kelly, who’s back with us today. Welcome back, Anne. Anne 00:14 Thanks. Happy to be here. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
The outpatient clinic and how that’s going to work. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.
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