Medical Social Worker

The medical social worker at Maximum Home Health serves as per the following:

• Assists patients and their families with personal and environmental difficulties which predispose illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care
• Works in close collaboration with physicians and therapist personnel inpatient evaluation and treatment to further their understanding of significant social and emotional factors underlying patient’s health problem.
• Helps patient and family through individual or group conferences to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations.
• Provides service planned to restore the patient to optimum social and health adjustment within the patient’s capacity.
• Utilizes community resources to assist patients to resume life in the community or to learn to live within the limits of disability.
• Prepares patient histories, service plans, and reports.
• Participates in planning for improving health services by interpreting social factors pertinent to the development of the program