服务 Offered
Components of patient care provided by social workers include:
- Adjustment to illness—lifestyle changes, non-adherence to treatment
- Crisis intervention: stabilization, problem-solving, short-term counseling and referrals
- Facilitate psychiatric placements and out-patient referrals
- Insurance issues
- Limited assistance with financial concerns due to hospitalization (i.e. 停车)
- 推荐 for accommodations (Ronald McDonald House, hotel discounts, etc.)
- Violence: suspected family violence including domestic violence, child abuse/neglect and elder abuse
- Support for end of life issues, coping with loss, including hospice referrals
- Grief and loss resources
- Decision making assistance regarding health care proxies and advanced directives