Volunteer Social Services

Medical Social Services, Inc.

We are committed to volunteering a portion of our professional skills and resources to help senior citizens in need, and to advocating for improvements in social conditions affecting their quality of life.

Volunteer Policy

Two ethical principals guide our volunteer policy:

  • A social worker is ethically bound to provide some measure of service with no expectation of financial reward.

  • A social worker's responsibility to avoid abandonment of a patient by taking reasonable steps to complete goals and to insure continuity of care, extends beyond discharge from service.

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Community Service

  • Public Education                                                                                                                             We offer informative workshops promoting awareness among seniors of the multitude of resources and services available to prolong sufficiency, maintain independence, and enhance quality of life. 
  • Resource Triage
    As a resource of last resort, Medical Social Work Services, Inc., accepts requests from physicians unable to identify urgently needed services for their patients who “fall between the cracks.”
      

  • Telephone Consultation for Former Patients
    Upon discharge of all Medicare patients, we offer future telephone consultation to address issues affecting safety, welfare, quality of life.

  • Follow-thru After Discharge
    When a Medicare Patient is discharged prior to completion of care plan goals, every effort is made to follow-thru with interventions to address needs and/or to insure continuity of care by referral to appropriate services.

Advocacy

  • Goal:  To be effective advocates for our patients to insure timely access to resources necessary for  maintaining independence.

    • Advocacy Initiative:  Identification and elimination of bureaucratic barriers, where ever encountered, which impede access to and utilization of resources intended to enhance the safety and welfare of elderly citizens.

     

  • Goal:  To be effective advocates for the provision of Medical Social Services as required by Federal Home Health Law.

    • Advocacy Initiative:  To stimulate interest, raise awareness, and promote understanding of a field tested Model social service delivery program with demonstrated effectiveness, in full compliance, and within  the scope of existing programs and budgets

(For information about our advocacy plans click > Advocacy & > Public Policy)

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Contact Us

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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