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

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

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. The nonprofit health system serves Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. What do these programs look like, and what services are provided?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Barbara highlights social workers’ inherent leadership qualities and tasks us to consider whether our own team and organizational structures are allowing for optimal social work engagement and influence.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

They found that patients who utilized social worker, psychologist and/or chaplain services chose to forgo aggressive treatments in their final days more often than those who had not, according to results published in the journal Oncology. Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

These can combine social work, nutritional counseling, navigation, financial advocacy, nursing, palliative medicine, psychology and pain management with traditional oncology. Supportive oncology services, a model that includes palliative care, are associated with lower costs and improved clinical outcomes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

HCC scores provide insightful information around the social determinants of health driving decisions among specific patient populations. Palliative care providers engaging in Accountable Care Organization (ACO) relationships have the potential to make significant strides in bridging inequitable gaps of access.

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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

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

AUGUST 7, 2023

To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. Insurance companies and Medicare are also starting to recognize the cost savings and improved patient outcomes the clinics can provide. “I The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In particular, a lot of our focus is going to be talking about palliative care and COPD, heart failure and interstitial lung disease, spurred on by a JAMA paper that was just published this week, Nurse and Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I’ll be working on that title. Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

The one-year program also provides training in social work and chaplaincy, among other interdisciplinary support services. The expanded pediatric palliative education program works to break down barriers of misconceptions and shore up future generations of clinicians and health care workers, he said.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

Our social work department is called the Department of Family Care and works closely with families. But how has the hospice and palliative care space evolved since Calvary started doing this work and how have you needed to adapt to those changes? It has also established itself as a teaching hospital, training U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Industry groups such as the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the Social Work in Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN) began calling on policymakers to develop a national grief care strategy in early 2021. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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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. She recently spoke about her work at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) annual conference. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

University of Connecticut Health (UConn) John Dempsey Hospital is expanding its palliative care program, including a new outpatient clinic. The UConn health system first invested in outpatient palliative care eight years ago at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center. The second is geriatrician Dr. Germaine Soliman.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

This can add to the strain of their work as they care for very different populations with different needs, according to Joan Harold, director of home care clinical services at Michigan-based Angela Hospice. Pediatrics ranked seventh out of 29 clinical specialties that experienced burnout during 2021, according to the survey.

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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

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 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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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

How do we move from efficacy (works in highly controlled settings) from effectiveness (works in real world settings? Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Compassionate Care Act would establish a nationwide public education campaign to educate the people in the United States about the importance of advance care planning, including grants and pilot initiatives to educate students in medical, nursing, social work and other related fields about end-of-life discussions and care.

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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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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

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

JULY 16, 2024

Family caregivers are among those with some of the greatest unmet bereavement needs, according to a study published in the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care. Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated.

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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

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

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

JUNE 27, 2024

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. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

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. But it’s going to take a lot more than that.”.

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