Medical Social Work
The medical social worker plays a crucial role in the acute care setting and is a fundamental player in the home health care team.
Your medical social worker is there to assist you with navigating the complicated healthcare system in an uncomplicated way. Services include:
- Crisis intervention
- Counseling with life-style changes
- Family counseling (grief counseling, teaching coping mechanisms with loss and change)
- Assistance in emotional adjustments to life changes
- Assisting with advance directives, power of attorney for health care and/or living wills
- Resource planning and coordination within the community
- Environmental and family dynamic assessments
