Social Services

The Social Worker engages patients and families by anticipating their concerns regarding illness, hospitalization, finances, insurances, and provides education concerning home/community services upon discharge.

The Social Worker coordinates all aspects of patients’ continuum of care by working in close consultation and collaboration with the physician, family, patient, interdisciplinary team and the community.

The Social Worker is involved with all service lines from pediatrics to geriatrics. They assist the palliative medicine and hospice teams, emphasizing and recognizes the individual’s strength and ability to participate with their treatment and their own autonomy in making discharge-planning decisions.

The Social Worker assists and counsels patients and families in coping with their immediate problems such as understanding and utilizing available resources and enabling environmental change for maximum recovery.

The Social Worker provides assistance in helping patients and their families with their personal relationships as part of the patient care team, exploring inhibiting factors preventing rehabilitation or recovery and the effect of the illness on the lifestyle from a health-oriented perceptive.