Compliance for the Hospice Social Worker, Chaplain & Spiritual Caregiver

Clinical Management Compliance Directors Executive Leadership Social Workers Chaplains & Spiritual Caregivers

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StreamedMar 13, 2024Duration90 minutes

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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

This webinar is part of the 2024 CoP Compliance for Hospice Personnel Series. Learn more and save 15% when you purchase the entire series!

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
Attendance certificate provided, however there are no pre-approved CEs associated with this webinar

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.