Consultation / Model Program

Medical Social Work Services, Inc.

Our consultation is limited to Home Health Agencies committed to a patient centered approach to management.  In this administrative setting, an adaptation of our Model will assure delivery of effective social services and increase agency marketability.

Our field tested patient centered Model Program, built form the ground up, is complete in detail assuring timely transfer of information useful to other members of the treatment team and promotes an integration of a professional social work perspective into the treatment process.

Immediate Impact of Consultation

  • Communications simplified

  • Accountability improved

  • Documentation simplified and useful

  • Personnel management simplified

  • Clinical indicators for social service referrals identified

  • Early and accurate identification of needs affecting recovery and independence.

  • Increased responsiveness to physician referrals

  • Establishment of parameters of what should be expected from a professional Social Worker (and what should not)

Consultation includes

  • Assessment of the HHA's existing social service program.

  • Assessment of the availability and distribution of resources in each services area

  • Assessment of the availability of qualified social workers.

  • Confidential report to Management. Findings & recommendations reviewed and administrative goals defined.

  • How to select social worker possessing appropriate skills and training.

  • How to establish cost effective and practical social service staffing pattern.

  • Recommendations  for procedures, documents, policies enabling maximum utilization of MSW.

  • Recommendation of a medical record documentation format providing useful and readable information.

  • Provision of user friendly computer forms simplifying all aspects of referral management, tracking and medical record documentation.

  • Staff Training on effective utilization of  social workers

 

 

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Medical Social Work Services, Inc.

1745 Binney Drive, Ft. Pierce, FL  34949

 

E-Mail  JohnAshcraftMSW@bellsouth.net

          Phone / Fax  (772) 467-0709                       

                               

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