Counseling services continue to be under-utilized and yet very needed for hospice patients. This presentation will advocate for the role of counseling services and will review the CoPs, agency best practices, assessments, plans of care, and documenting terminality. It will address managing hospice patients and families from a psychosocial and emotional perspective, including interventions.

 AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Discuss the hospice core services required by the Conditions of Participation
• Explain how data on social work visits is collected by CMS and reported as a quality indicator
• Review how both social workers and spiritual caregivers can support terminality
• Understand the importance of LCD guidelines
• Identify the four levels of care and appropriate documentation

WEBINAR DETAILS: Part 3 of this five-part compliance series will review the role of hospice social workers, spiritual caregivers, counselors, and chaplains and how they can add value to an agency’s quality reporting, team dynamics, and the patient experience. It will review the CoP best practices for assessments, plans of care, IDG participation, and terminality documentation. You’ll learn some of the challenges and obstacles counseling services face and how to address them. All the responsibilities required in managing patients and families from a psychosocial and emotional perspective will be reviewed.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: Hospice, Palliative Care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This informative session is designed for all hospice employees, including executive leadership, clinical leadership and support services, LCSWs, MSWs, spiritual caregivers, chaplains, DOPCSs, RN coordinators and case managers, QA staff, and educators.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Medicare LCD guidelines
• Suggestions for improved documentation
• Creating an effective hospice POC fact sheet (CMS MLN education)
• Social work and spiritual care assessment tools
• Weblinks to hospice electronic CoPs and valuable websites
• Training log
• PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions

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NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

MEET THE PRESENTER: Kathy Ahearn, RN, BSN, PHN, ALECC, Inc.

Kathy Ahearn has a Bachelor’s in both Nursing and Social Work and is the CEO and Founder of ALECC, Inc. ALECC provides years of post-acute care experience, ranging from clinical staff to executive leadership and consulting. Kathy provides a unique ability to identify agency challenges and opportunities, quickly providing education, support, and mentoring to organizations, guiding them to a new level of operation and success.

Kathy helped develop pain scales to standardize assessment with the American Pain Society and the Joint Commission. She expanded into medical devices as a Managed Care Director developing one of the first real-time cloud-based disease specific software programs to assist patients, clinicians, and managed care organizations to improve outcomes and collect data.

Kathy began healthcare work due to a disabled parent and later a child living with chronic disease state. She has experienced healthcare professionally and personally, dedicating her life to it and to working as a change agent for the betterment of all served.

REGISTRATION FEES:     Members- $159          Non-members- $229

This registration is for one connection only. Additional logins will be charged accordingly.

There are no cancellations or refunds.

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