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3 Keys to Hospice Social Worker Recruitment and Retention

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Three important considerations can help hospices recruit and retain social workers — a respectful workplace culture, reasonable workloads and continuing education opportunities. Workforce shortages remain the industry’s most damaging headwind, and that includes social workers.

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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

Hospice News

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.”.

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DHGE-CommonSpirit Health Social Work Fellowship to Include Hospice, Health Equity Training

Hospice News

As the hospice and palliative care workforce dwindles, some stakeholders are hard at work to develop career paths for staff in related disciplines, including social work. The program is designed to support social workers in the early years of working in the field and develop smooth pathways to licensure.

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How Palliative Care Could Address Unmet Needs of Patients With Rare Diseases

Hospice News

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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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

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If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. In order to preserve access to this care, our bill would strengthen training and education opportunities for individuals working in these fields.”. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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How Northeast Georgia Medical Center Rebuilt Its Community-Based Palliative Program

Hospice News

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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Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Break Down Advance Care Planning Barriers

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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).