Director, Evaluation and Strategic Planning

• Mar 2023 - Present

Assistant Director - Palliative Care Social Worker

• Aug 2013 - Apr 2023

• Complete comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment • Facilitate patient-family goals of care conversations, advance care planning and lifespan planning while supporting and respecting family’s unique spiritual and cultural beliefs and values • Provide psychosocial counseling and support to the patient and family experiencing emotional acceptance and understanding of illness, and, social and economic conflict • Mediate conflicts within families, between patients and the interdisciplinary team and between service organizations • Advocate on behalf of the patient and family and link them with appropriate resources • Plan for discharge, coordinate care and assist patients navigate systems • Participate in palliative care performance improvement initiatives • Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings, care planning and ethics consultations • Member of team that obtained Palliative Care Joint Commission certification at EHC • Member of the EHC ethics committee • Member of HHC Palliative Care Council • Supervise Palliative Care Discharge Planner Show less

Licensed Hospice Social Worker

• Jul 2011 - 2013

• Complete psychosocial assessment, provide psychotherapeutic counseling and assist with crisis intervention, including death attendance and funeral planning guidance • Advocate to obtain community and government services for patients and caregivers • Educate Inter-disciplinary Team about significant psychosocial factors present and the respective impact on the family unit and integrate into Plan of Care • Complete psychosocial assessment, provide psychotherapeutic counseling and assist with crisis intervention, including death attendance and funeral planning guidance • Advocate to obtain community and government services for patients and caregivers • Educate Inter-disciplinary Team about significant psychosocial factors present and the respective impact on the family unit and integrate into Plan of Care