Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Bullock is also professor at Boston Colleges School of Social Work and Global Public Health. Collaborating with other providers can help cast a wider net of data collection across underserved communities, Bullock indicated. Pooling data can help drive innovative change towards improved access and quality, she stated.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

We often fill that gap with a lot of care management services, and that could be nursing, social work, pharmacy, but they’re generally going to get to know their nurse really, really well. That becomes another trusted care partner and decision maker.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”. The average age among the veterans was about 65.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the needs of these patients become even more complex when they are uninsured, unhoused, disconnected from family or otherwise lacking a support system according to Terry Altilio, a palliative care educator and retired social work coordinator formerly with the Division of Palliative Care at New York City’s Mt.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 28, 2022

National Social Work Month. March is National Social Work Month, which means we’re celebrating all the great work Nick and Ana do for our patients! When asked about their favorite part of Hospice social work, Nick and Ana shared.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

This can result in patients coming to hospice later in the course of their illnesses, according to Lee, who also serves on the board of directors at the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN). A late referral often means that the patient will not receive the full benefits of hospice care.

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Hope Hospice

MARCH 12, 2021

In honor of Social Work Appreciation Month this March, we celebrate our wonderful social work team. Social work visits, though certainly essential to the hospice experience, are not classified as medically essential in these COVID-19 times. Click here to learn more about the role of social work in hospice.

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Hope Hospice

MARCH 26, 2020

One professional on the team is your medical social worker. What is the role of social work in hospice? Hope Hospice’s Veronica Martin, MSW, ASW, explains: A social worker is part of the hospice care team. One role of social work in hospice is to connect the family with needed resources.

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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.

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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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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

Edmonds et al (2021) found that when a social worker was involved in a palliative care consultation, whole-person care components were more likely to be addressed, including addressing psychological (82% vs 18%) and spiritual needs (92% vs 8%) and documenting advance directives (90% vs 10%). Palliative care social work has come a long way.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Chamberlain University’s Master of Social Work (MSW) degree program receives Initial Accreditation through 2030 by the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Commission on Accreditation (COA).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

While pay-per-visit is illegal in the nursing field in Oregon, Oregon law is silent on this model for other specialties like physical therapy, occupational therapy and social work. [The JV] could lead to reduced services as well as caregiver burnout if they force our members to move to a pay-per-visit model.

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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 programs integrate a range of services to meet cancer patients’ multidimensional needs.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

As far back as 2006, the hospice industry saw more social workers leave than any other health care sector, according to a study from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 13, 2024

National Social Work Month Social workers are often called the unsung heroes of health care. That’s because most social workers don’t approach their careers with an eye toward accolades”, Ketchum said. “We To honor these heroes, we celebrate National Social Work Month every March. But it’s not for me.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

One strategy that some hospices have adopted is to involve more social workers in case management while trying to stay in that 13-25 patient range.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Spiritual care, social work and a lot of the disciplines that really don’t exist within a lot of traditional primary care providers are disciplines that hospice and palliative care providers can bring to the table,” Banach told Palliative Care News.

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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.

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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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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

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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

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. The grant enables Sierra to fund expenses that cannot be covered with current income streams and offers broader, higher-quality care to patients, according to Tipton.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

There has been interest in the social work community for certifications in palliative care. We worked with the social work schools at Columbia University, New York University, and most recently, Fordham University, as they have developed programs in what they call palliative social work.

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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.

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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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MARCH 5, 2024

So productivity cannot be as robust for some of the social work, chaplain or nurse visits. “Both Medicare and managed care don’t reimburse appropriately to cover the cost of salaries and education in palliative care,” McInnes said. The time it takes with palliative care visits can be much longer than the typical home health visit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Congress earmark more funds to develop nationwide interoperability of health IT and data sharing across the care continuum CMS require hospice and palliative care training as part of all alternative payment models Educational institutions like schools of medicine, nursing and social work schools should be required to provide training in goals of care (..)

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

The one-year program also provides training in social work and chaplaincy, among other interdisciplinary support services. RWJBarnabas Health in 2020 launched the Anchor Training program to swell its base of clinicians trained in pediatric palliative care, partnering with local centers to develop and provide specialized curriculum.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

Most medical, nursing, pharmacy and social work students receive little exposure to hospice or palliative care during their training. And even if the bill does reach the White House for signature, additional legislative action would be necessary to appropriate the necessary funds. But the need is great.

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