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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not.

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When Nurses Are Caught Between Hospital Policy and Frustrated Family Members

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When I said we had to go through the social worker to get an exception to the visitor policy, she called me “rule-bound,” at which point her husband stood and rushed forward until he was towering over me. The emotional hangover A difficult professional interaction can trigger or exacerbate other personal struggles.

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2022

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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. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1 Billion (April 21). s (NYSE: HUM) $2.8

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Blue Ridge Hospice Moves Forward with New PACE Program

Hospice News

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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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And I think that was partly. She put her back out.

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Gentiva Engineers Unique Palliative Care Payment System Via AIM Program

Hospice News

The following year, the insurance giant divested Kindred’s hospice and personal care segments, selling a 60% stake to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CDR) for $2.8 The care model is driven primarily by nurse practitioners who visit as often as once a week, according to Stengle.

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Hospices Leverage Community Resources to Serve Vulnerable Homeless Populations

Hospice News

A growing need for care Rocky Mountain Refuge provides shelter for unhoused individuals approaching the end of life as well as a continuum of care. Services include personal care, assistance with daily activities of life, nonmedical and caregiving support, and pain, symptom and medication management.

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