Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

The key to effectively addressing these needs is a comprehensive interdisciplinary care approach, which includes disease-specific specialists, in conjunction with palliative care and social work.” Palliative approaches can help address gaps of care among patients with a diverse range of rare chronic and serious illnesses.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

So productivity cannot be as robust for some of the social work, chaplain or nurse visits. A wide variety of palliative care services have cropped up nationwide in recent years, but not all have remained viable. Reimbursement and staffing challenges are the most significant factors. It’s really the funding.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

Ensure social workers have a voice To keep social workers on staff, hospices should focus on creating a respectful workplace culture in which all members of the interdisciplinary team can feel heard, according to Vickie Leff, a palliative care consultant and interim director of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Rutgers-Samaritan collaboration, in particular, is focused on bolstering clinical rotations and hands-on training opportunities for Rutgers-Camden students in nursing, social work and psychology. The partnership is reflective of similar palliative care-awareness efforts happening across the U.S. Tillis said in a statement.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

From the outset, Dignity Health and Hospice of the Foothills worked together to develop the Sierra Community Palliative Care program. The funds will be used to pay for on-call services and a part-time professional with a master’s degree in social work, she said. Local primary-care providers also send patients to Sierra.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. However, unlike hospice services, which have a distinct payment model supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), palliative care has less established infrastructure for delivery.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A growing number of educational and academic institutions also have created partnerships with providers to create new pathways for palliative care clinical training, with many focusing on nurses, social work and pharmacy students – areas that are hurting for qualified professionals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When patients got their diagnosis for a cancer, there’s a lot that goes into processing that — there’s a need for social work and for counseling to sort of help them deal with the issues… whether they want treatment, whether they don’t want treatment, how much treatment do they want,” Dutta said.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) I believe it has more than a chance. So it’s exciting to see the growth.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The JV is currently undergoing a state review in Oregon following concerns raised by the Oregon Nurses Association, which cited challenges to employment and working conditions, costs of care and patient access in a local news report. We are prepared and committed to ensuring any questions or concerns are addressed.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would authorize $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work. The bill’s most recent go around was last May, reintroduced by Sens.

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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. Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

Federal legislators plan to continue to work on passing a bill designed to bolster the hospice and palliative care workforce. The Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) has come before Congress several times but has not yet been passed. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Other supporters include organizations such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), Respecting Choices, and the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Texas-based Midland Health recently opened a new inpatient palliative care center aimed at improving access and quality outcomes among seriously ill patients and their families. Dubbed the Center for Serious Illness and Supportive Care, the facility will be based at the health system’s Midland Memorial Hospital.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Palliative and hospice care providers can be the linchpins in improving advance care planning disparity issues among African Americans, according to Karen Bullock, professor of social work at Boston College. This has contributed to widespread mistrust of the health care system among some communities. Researchers from Charles R.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

In addition to quantifiable financial pressure, in-home elder care has other costs for caregivers, according to Ellen Carbonell, LCSW, caregiver programs consultant in the department of Social Work and Community Health at RUSH University Medical Center, told Palliative Care News.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

APRIL 23, 2025

Date: May 7, 2025 Time: 16:00 17:30 CET Online Event This webinar, presented by the EAPC Task Force on Social Work, is an opportunity to explore the challenges and impact of social inequalities in palliative care. Register now: [link] The post Webinar: inequality, poverty, and palliative and end-of-life care.

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. This adds to what we already knew: involvement of social work impacts quality of care and patient satisfaction (Auerbach, 2007; O’Donnell et al., These misconceptions are common. Quite a wide gamut.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Building a Collaborative Care program provided the financial infrastructure to allow our team of social workers to expand our services and address many of the behavioral health needs of our patients, as well as our medical social work line,” Walton told Palliative Care News. For patients dealing with cancer, this is essential.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Callaway previously worked as a nurse manager of UnityPoint Health. She joins the organization with a background in social work and has been in the health care field for roughly 25 years. Prior to that, she was administrator of nursing at Iowa Veterans Home.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

Wladkowski, the Larry and Patty Benz Professor and an associate professor of social work at Bowling Green State University. Votsmier Endowed Chair and a professor in the Valentine School of Nursing at Saint Louis University, and Stephanie P. Among the changes that the U.S. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% of the nation’s 1.7

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc., Interest in palliative care is rising among job-seeking clinicians, but the influx remains too slow to meet rising demand. However, that paradigm may be starting to shift due to a series of changes in the health care system.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

Gaines is a doctoral candidate in palliative care at the University of Maryland, and Cagle is an associate professor at its School of Social Work. “We The remaining 14% of hospices in states with a CON provision in place had a higher unadjusted mean Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality score for all measures than those that did not.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would authorize $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work. Hoover told Hospice News. It really should have been a lot higher.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Additionally, helping patients understand how to craft clear advance directives and assigning medical power of attorney to a partner or spouse are crucial tasks that the social work team needs to have experience in supporting. How can providers work to increase access to care? Hospice care would be unbiased and equal.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Personal care and social work referrals will also end. The home health and hospice will also cease to accept patient referrals from the senior housing community for those who require personal care attendant services as well as case management/social work service referrals, according to local news.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Though CON regulations are not necessarily an indicator of quality, size or ownership status, they can give lawmakers a window into the relationship between quality and oversight, as well as other variables that impact end-of-life experiences, according to John Cagle, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. “We

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little training in hospice and palliative care during the course of their education. A 2018 study found that most would not feel prepared to provide family-centered care in the final stages of life.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

There’s more advocacy work that can be done to create better benefits for home caregivers. I think making sure that people have access to education is a priority so they’re able to advocate, supporting our researchers and our different communities to do that work. Can you tell me how you find joy in your work?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some commenters expressed interest in the role HOPE will play in advancing health equity, including voicing support for the collection of social risk data, including social determinants of health (SDOH) data,” the rule language indicated. We know the different experiences [underserved populations] have had to overcome.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each trainee receives exposure to different interdisciplinary aspects of hospice, including skills labs in end-of-life nursing and social work, communications, EMR systems and ongoing educational courses around the philosophy of hospice care, according to Garcia.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Our findings showed improvement in HCI measures which drive quality, including increased nursing and social work visits and time spent in the home to support patients and their loved ones and caregivers in the last seven days of life,” Nangle said. Even more importantly, it’s helping with staff satisfaction.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

HealthFlex provides home health, hospice, palliative care, social work, and personal care. Oakland, California-based Healthflex has made Inc.’s s list several years running. The company reached No. 2,299 this year, achieving growth of 255%.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Addressing the psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and families — including bereavement care, social work and chaplain services — have long been integral to the hospice model. But, for now, hospices continue to be the resident experts in those types of care models in today’s fragmented health care system.

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