Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

From a retention standpoint, many times a spiritual care providers direct supervisor is a nurse, a social worker or someone other than another spiritual care provider, Couzens told Hospice News. Sometimes they struggle because they do not have the opportunity to report to someone who is part of their discipline.

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AJN Off the Charts

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was a little anxious because I had already heard that this had been an issue overnight and that the parents had pushed back on efforts by another nurse to hold them to the policy. The leash for stressed and grieving family members is inevitably longer than the leash for stressed nurses, a reality that is both understandable and complicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Angela Hospices grief team collaborates with local school systems and educators, faith-based and religious organizations, legal resources and funeral homes, as well as assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. Angela Hospice has also developed collaborations with financial institutions such as credit unions and advisory groups.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2025

In addition to palliative and hospice care, the health system provides hospital-based and outpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, assisted living and home health care. Assessing social determinants of health in community-based palliative care can be particularly challenging, according to Romanello.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Patient and family participants in the intervention arm of the IN-PEACE study received monthly check-ins via telephone for up to two years from a nurse or social worker to help caregivers manage issues such as patients neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver distress and palliative care concerns such as advance care planning and referral to hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Huse and Saint Martin cite interest in a multidisciplinary approach, including physicians, nurses, community health workers, chaplains, and social workers, as well as family caregivers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Medically fragile and complex youths age in vastly different ways than their healthy peers depending on their conditions, according to Jeannette Meyer, palliative care nurse at UCLA. This involves strong communication and collaboration across both adult and pediatric clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers.

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Hospice 101

MARCH 2, 2021

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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In enacted, the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would permit social workers to conduct ACP services, remove co-pays and patient fees, and promote provider education about associated billing codes. Warner (D-Va.) The bill also contains provisions to improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

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. This is the latest in a series of unionizations among hospice and palliative care workers, particularly in California and Oregon.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If If you spend more than 30 minutes, billable providers are limited to physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula. Other health care providers, upstream of hospice, are also engaging doula services as well, such as assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, she said. There’s a huge variety even within the scope of what makes a doula who they are.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Currently, the scope of “eligible providers” of these services is limited to clinicians, specifically physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers.

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Traditions Health

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. As a guide for care, the POC is regularly reviewed and can be adjusted at any time.

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Hospice News

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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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Strategies revealed in the study include increasing the amount of social workers and re-allocating non-clinical responsibilities, such as scheduling, to other areas of the organization.”. A number of hospices have shut down or sold their businesses because they could not hire enough workers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

Communication is more efficient when we’re all attending the same daily nursing meetings and discussing the same patients, rather than relaying those communications to outside hospice providers,” Clark told local news. The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

Established in 1988, AAHPM is a professional organization for hospice and palliative care clinicians, social workers and other health and spiritual care providers in the space. Smith-Lopez has more than 26 years of experience in hospice and palliative care, beginning her career as a registered nurse before taking on leadership roles.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

For the study, caregivers of hospitalized patients who dwell in rural areas participated in a randomized, 8-week intervention consisting of video visits conducted by a palliative care-certified registered nurse. These visits were supplemented with phone calls and texts.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2025

For years, I hesitated to make the jump from social work to nursing. I became a social worker to help people, and nursing offered a more direct way to do it. That’s what kept me from pursuing nursing. As a social worker in the Bronx, I mentored kids struggling with family or school issues.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“We were seeing retention as being harder and harder, competing with other organizations for doctors, nurses, CNAs and other clinicians,” Nathan Adelson Hospice CEO and President Karen Rubel previously told Hospice News. Registered nurses also saw high turnover rates at 25.15% turnover and accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. for nurses.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The tool factors in clinical concerns as well as the home environment, caregiver resources and social determinants of health. The care model is driven primarily by nurse practitioners who visit as often as once a week, according to Stengle. Clinicians are reachable 24/7, including through telehealth support.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A lot of times these clients don’t need a nurse in the house, but maybe a spiritual care coordinator or a social worker. This program is set up to really go in and figure out what are all those social determinants that are impacting this person’s overall well being.” How is their housing situation?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Virginia-based nonprofit capitalized the program largely through philanthropic donations Participants in the program will receive preventative, primary, acute and long-term health and personal care services, including social activities.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

William Collinge, associate director of the Integrative Palliative Care Institute in Washington, said most palliative care organizations evolved as basic, mainstream medical care provided by doctors, nurses and social workers. The integrative model highlights an ongoing evolution.

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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.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers who completed at least 12 months of employment.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I knew that if we could put a nurse practitioner with a patient earlier in the prognosis, they would move through the continuum of care with that patient and create a report. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Community PedsCare program has an interdisciplinary staff of about 22 employees including a chaplain, social workers, child life specialists, music therapists and a respite program with registered nurses that provide care to families, among others.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

What’s happening in these states has caused mounting concern around access to quality hospice care for LGBTQ+ individuals, according to Kimberly Acquaviva, social worker and professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Northeast Georgia model provides a nurse practitioner, who works under the advice of a physician, and a social worker. Right now, the in-home program has a staff of four full-time nurse practitioners and three part-time nurse practitioners. two full-time social workers, and part-time chaplains and volunteers.

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Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

HarmonyCares’ physician-led interdisciplinary teams include more than 175 primary care providers, nurse care managers, social workers, pharmacists and 24-7 on-call support for patients. Other participants included K2 HealthVentures, Rubicon Founders, Valtruis, HLM Capital and Oak HC/FT.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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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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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Palliative care providers can help ensure that these patients don’t “fall through the many cracks” of a fragmented health care system, according to Landon Blankenship, chief nursing officer at Hospice of Southern West Virginia, which provides hospice and palliative care across four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Littlefield was previously Riverside Health System’s executive vice president and chief nursing officer. The funding follows a $6.5

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