Medical Social Services
- Provides counseling and teaches coping skills
- Helps access financial assistance
- Assists with long-term planning and/or placement referrals to community partners
- Provides counseling and teaches coping skills
- Helps access financial assistance
- Evaluation of social, economic, environmental and emotional factors that could affect the patient’s condition
- Obtaining needed community services such as Meals On Wheels, chore services, transportation, financial assistance and support groups
- Assists with long-term planning and/or placement referrals to community partners
- Patient and family counseling and education
- Assistance with long-term planning and alternative living arrangements
- Stress management/coping skills training
- Helping eligible patients obtain prescription assistance
