Cost Accountability for Hospital Social Work. Chicago: Society for Hospital Social Work Directors of the American Hospital Association and Quality and Quantity Assurance for Social Workers in Health Care: A Training Manual

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-162
Author(s):  
Susan S. Bailis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Training Manual ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
Hospital Social Work

scholarly journals Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19: Creativity in hospital social work practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Mim Fox ◽  
Joanna McIlveen ◽  
Elisabeth Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Bereavement Support ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Hospital Social Work ◽  
Complicating Factors ◽  
Bereavement Care

Bereavement support and conducting viewings for grieving family members are commonplace activities for social workers in the acute hospital setting, however the risks that COVID-19 has brought to the social work role in bereavement care has necessitated the exploration of creative alternatives. Social workers are acutely aware of the complicating factors when bereavement support is inadequately provided, let alone absent, and with the aid of technology and both individual advocacy, social workers have been able to continue to focus on the needs of the most vulnerable in the hospital system. By drawing on reflective journaling and verbal reflective discussions amongst the authors, this article discusses bereavement support and the facilitation of viewings as clinical areas in which hospital social work has been observed adapting practice creatively throughout the pandemic.

scholarly journals Exposing health inequities: Surreal snapshots from the Grand Canyon to global COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Jean E Balestrery
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Grand Canyon ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Tribal Land

The story presented here is central to social work because it is about crisis. Across diverse fields of practice, social workers regularly engage in crisis intervention. The story that follows is about crisis in the area of health and healthcare. Specifically, it’s about exposing health/care inequities on Indigenous tribal land in the Grand Canyon and in the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospital Religious Affiliation and Outcomes for High-Risk Infants

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa M. Garrido ◽  
Kirk C. Allison ◽  
Mark J. Bergeron ◽  
Bryan Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Perinatal Outcomes ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Organizational Affiliation

The effect of hospital organizational affiliation on perinatal outcomes is unknown. Using the 2004 American Hospital Association Annual Survey and Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases, the authors examined relationships among organizational affiliation, equipment and service availability and provision, and in-hospital mortality for 5,133 infants across five states born with very low and extremely low birth weight and congenital anomalies. In adjusted bivariate probit selection models, the authors found that government hospitals had significantly higher mortality rates than not-for-profit nonreligious hospitals. Mortality differences among other types of affiliation (Catholic, not-for-profit religious, not-for-profit nonreligious, and for-profit) were not statistically significant. This is encouraging as health care reform efforts call for providers at facilities with different institutional values to coordinate care across facilities. Although there are anecdotes of facility religious affiliation being related to health care decisions, the authors did not find evidence of these relationships in their data.

Challenges to the development of a health care practice model for hospital social work in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Helen Cleak ◽  
Anish KR ◽  
Georgina Heaslop ◽  
Angela Tonge
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Hospital Social Work

Social work in health care: An international perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie Pockett ◽  
Liz Beddoe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Health Equality

An important element of contemporary social work is the influence of international trends on the contexts of practice. In this article, we will critically examine aspects of globalisation and the relationships between health inequalities and social inequalities and the implications for social work practice. Giles called on social workers to develop a ‘health equality imagination’; however, the challenge for practitioners on a day-to-day basis is how to integrate such an imagination into their work. A number of suggested approaches towards a greater engagement in addressing health inequalities in social work practice, education and research are also presented.

Advancing the Role of Nonprofit Health Care

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Term Care ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Blue Cross Blue Shield ◽  
Blue Shield ◽  
Care System

This article comes out of a series of discussions among a diverse group of chief executive officers (CEOs) and other leaders of nonprofit hospitals, long-term care facilities, health maintenance organizations, and other insurance providers, including several nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans. The group was convened as part of Howard Berman's Walter J. McNerney Fellowship project. (Berman is CEO of Excellus, Inc., a nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate that insures the health of more than 2.15 million people in upstate New York. He was awarded the McNerney Fellowship in April 2001 by the Health Research and Educational Trust, an American Hospital Association affiliate. The Fellowship goes annually to at least one fellow to highlight or pursue work that will provide new insights into how different sectors of the health care system can better work together for improved outcomes.) The group has met several times over the past year around a shared concern: the current challenges to nonprofit health care organizations and the future role for nonprofits in the re-visioning and creation of an American health care system that is characterized by universal access, patient-centered quality, and national affordability. Members have supported the public relations campaign of the “Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care,” an effort initiated by the Caucus, an independent group of nonprofit BCBS plans. The group continues to explore the need for a broad-based coalition of providers, insurers, and other organizations to effectively protect and enhance the role of nonprofit health care.

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