Happy Social Work Month 2022
Published on
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
March is National Professional Social Work Month. This year’s the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is celebrating with the theme “The time is right for social work.” The NASW notes that “The time is always right for social work. However more people are entering the field because the life-affirming services that social workers provide are needed more than ever. This is especially true as our nation continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic racism, economic inequality, global warming, and other crises.”
A few of the resources available on NASW’s website for your 2022 Social Work Campaign (link) include:
- A Social Work Month 2022 video.
- A quiz to assess how much you know about social work; and
- A document highlighting the theme and rationale for this year’s Social Work Month.
I want to acknowledge and thank all the wonderful social workers that I have worked with or who have been an invaluable resource in my own life when family members have been hospitalized.
The transition of care from a hospital to a post-acute setting can be a very stressful time. As MMP has done in years past, we are providing an updated list of resources to assist with discharge planning.
Resources for You:
- Medicare Costs at Glance for 2022 (link)
- MLN Booklet: Medicare and Medicaid Basics (link)
- MLN Educational Tool: Medicare Payment Systems (link)
- CMS National Training Program Module: 2021/2022 Getting Started with Medicare (link)
Resources for your patients
- Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital (link)
- Discharge Planning Protects You (link)
- Your Discharge Planning Checklist: For patients and their caregivers preparing to leave a hospital, nursing home, or other care setting (link)
- Your Guide to Medicare’s Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, & Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program (link)
- Your Medicare Benefits (link)
- Medicare Hospice Benefits (link)
- Medicare Appeals (link)
From all of us at MMP, Happy Social Work Month!
Article Author: Beth Cobb, RN, BSN, ACM, CCDS
Beth Cobb, RN, BSN, ACM, CCDS, is the Manager of Clinical Analytics at Medical Management Plus, Inc. Beth has over twenty-five years of experience in healthcare including eleven years in Case Management at a large multi-facility health system. In her current position, Beth is a principle writer for MMP’s Wednesday@One weekly e-newsletter, an active member of our HIPAA Compliance Committee, MMP’s Education Department Program Director and co-developer of MMP’s proprietary Compliance Protection Assessment Tool.
