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Rehabilitation Therapy and Wound Management: Strategic Partnership in Home Health

Relias

Rehabilitation therapists play an important role in the management of pressure injuries and other wounds in the home. Agency leaders and decision makers can take this a step further by reaching out to community hospitals and health systems, skilled nursing, and assisted living partners, and creating a more inclusive partnership.

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

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DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

Community Care

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. However, she raised concerns about the time-limited nature of resourcing of them.

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Care providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospitals

The Guardian

Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitation Care providers are demanding double the usual fees to look after thousands of people who need to be discharged from hospitals to ease the crisis in the NHS. Continue reading.

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The Pandemic and Your Kids

Gary Direnfeld

Married and moved to Hamilton, I took a job at a hospital based brain injury rehabilitation program. I have developed and managed two brain injury rehabilitation programs, both lost owing to legislative changes to auto insurance. After graduating and four years later, I applied to a PhD program in social work and was rejected.

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What is Pre-Acute Care and Why Do We Need it?

Relias

Pre-acute care is a term that describes the care provided to patients before they need acute care services such as hospitalization or an emergency department visit. healthcare system is currently facing, such as the shortage of healthcare workers and the rising costs of hospital care. What is pre-acute care?

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What is Pre-Acute Care and Why Do We Need it?

Relias

Pre-acute care is a term that describes the care provided to patients before they need acute care services such as hospitalization or an emergency department visit. healthcare system is currently facing, such as the shortage of healthcare workers and the rising costs of hospital care. What is pre-acute care?