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Partnering With Hospitals Can Boost SNF Referrals

Relias

As an SNF operator, one strategy to rebuild occupancy and increase revenues is to partner with a local hospital and become part of its SNF-preferred network. Many hospitals are establishing preferred SNF networks to refer their patients for continued care. She encouraged hospital providers to increase the amount to 80%-90%.

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Diana Lee Guida Brown

Social Work Blog

There, she attended Columbia University School of General Studies to earn her bachelor’s degree in Sociology while working part time in the Dean of Study’s Office. Diana’s first job as a social worker at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital earned her recognition by Glamour Magazine (September 1965) as being a “Girl with Go Jobs.”

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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GuestPost: Surviving a Major Bipolar Depressive Episode and Finding a Purpose in my Life by Becky Rowland

Bipolar Bandit

I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I was no longer allowed to take graduate courses at this university. I had memories of being mistreated by hospital staff. I was in a psychosis.

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COVID-19 and First Responder Social Workers: An Unexpected Mental Health Storm

Social Work Blog

COVID-19 has disproportionally affected people living in poverty; new immigrants; and those living in healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes), shelters, detention centers, and prisons. A recent article in the journal Social Work , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, highlights this issue.

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Guest Post: What Euphoria Feels Like by @that_bipolar.girl

Bipolar Bandit

Everything feels different, like you’ve seen the world and the universe for the first time in your life. It feels like you are one with the universe. Even knowing that I will end up in a hospital probably wouldn’t stop me. The colours of a painting. Every good feeling felt multiplied by 100. I cried my eyes out when I saw it.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation.