Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

In New Jersey, a partnership between a health services company and a nursing home is offering a new approach to long-term illness, tailoring palliative care treatment plans to individual patients. 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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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

The letter included a push to pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), which if passed would provide incentives to expand training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: BlackRock.

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Interim HealthCare Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Every November, the home care and hospice community honors the millions of nurses, home care aides, therapists, and social workers who make a remarkable difference for the patients and families they serve.

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Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 3, 2023

Pay Attention to Financial Indicators: You might be in a situation where you are caring for someone in their home or a nursing home. Watch for Signs of Neglect: Unkempt appearance, poor hygiene, malnutrition, dehydration, or the presence of pressure sores are potential signs of neglect.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 17, 2024

I started with the goal of becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). It was important to me to be there for some nursing home patients with little to no family and support them in accomplishing daily tasks. I knew I could grow in nursing and pushed myself to do more. I immediately loved it!

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Most people choose to get hospice care at home. However, inpatient hospice facilities, hospitals, and some nursing homes also provide services. Social workers can address financial issues and access additional support services. They also train your primary caregiver to assist you and give medicine.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

They work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers , to provide comprehensive care to patients. Psychiatrists often work in hospitals, clinics, private practice, nursing homes, government agencies, and correctional facilities.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 26, 2023

I started with an initial goal of becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Being there for some nursing home patients with little-to-no family and supporting them to accomplish daily tasks was important to me. I knew I could grow in nursing and pushed myself to do more. I immediately loved it!

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social workers can help you and your loved one resolve any lingering end-of-life planning. Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals. Social workers also help patients make sure they have end-of-life items completed, such as funeral planning or will writing. .

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 21, 2023

This type of care is beneficial for patients: In need of help while recovering from an illness, injury, or surgery Recently discharged from a hospital, nursing home or rehabilitation facility Who require ongoing medical treatments at home With a disability or chronic condition like dementia, diabetes, and heart disease Your home health care team can (..)

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 7, 2022

Typically the Hospice Nurse and Social Worker coordinate this. The team typically consists of the Hospice Doctor, Hospice Nurse, Home Health Aide, Social Worker, and a Chaplain. It can happen for up to 5 days at a time and it is possible to receive respite care more than once on occasion.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Social worker services. While hospice care often takes place at home, it can also be provided in inpatient facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes. . End-of-life care involves special challenges for the patient and their loved ones, so hospice workers must have the ability to assist with those needs. .

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

To the families and the people, were going to make them a home, Susan Mitchell-Macfarlane, chairman and president of Mitchell House, told local news. A portion of the former Countryside Nursing Home is currently undergoing renovations as the boarding houses new site. Is this [facility] ever going to happen?

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She put her back out.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2025

The support that Calvary has with the staff onsite whether its the nurses or the clinicians, the social workers, the chaplains everybody is sensitive to what patients and families are going through. A Calvary Hospice nurse practitioner, for example, could provide dedicated service to a nursing home.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The payment increases were generally seen as a boon for providers, though some voiced concern about the cut to routine home care, which represents about 97% of the services hospices provide, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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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.

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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.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

“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 Less than half (46.2%) of adults nationwide with a mental illness received care or treatment in 2020, according to data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. The whole team of nurses, social workers and chaplains were so committed to their patients,” Sheehan said.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care. We have medical social workers who support the patients. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. We have a psychiatrist.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. Has this patient been out of bed?

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. The other recent JAMA study ran in February: Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings. million persons in nursing homes have received or will receive a diagnosis of cancer.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. I saw years ago in Oregon, a POLST form that had been on file in a nursing home resident’s chart for seven years. And it said comfort measures. So for seven years, that person had been treated in accordance with that plan of care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Ira: Just to support the for-profits, again in the long arc of things I saw in 1996, ’97 when the office of OIGs Operation Restore Trust came out that under the direction of NHO, frankly the nonprofits retreated from caring for people in nursing homes, including dementia care patients. And I personally was sent to the desert.

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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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. The outpatient clinic and how that’s going to work. You’re not hiring trained facilitators. We had another-.

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

In most cases, hospice care is provided by a team of trained professionals that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers. Hospice care is provided by a team of professionals that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers. Continuous Home Care.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

An interdisciplinary team is assembled for each patient and it typically includes the attending physician, a Registered Nurse (RN) case manager, home health aide, social worker, and a chaplain. The RN case manager will set up regular nursing visits at the patient’s home and will provide the bulk of the medical care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. And that helps us get to the decision. And she had always been immaculately dressed, and for some obscure reason, the hospital gift shop had a display of straw hats.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. I just want to highlight some work. Anybody know what hospice agency nonprofit it started?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

There have been nursing homes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I. Louise 15:47 Well, I think even in that example of choking in a nursing home, you don’t actually require cardioversion or a breathing tube.

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