Services

Key components of patient care provided by social workers include:

• Adjustment to Illness — lifestyle changes, non-adherence to treatment, coping with loss, end of life issues, including hospice referrals
• Complex discharge planning
  • Facilitate inpatient psyciatric hospitalization
• Crisis: Counseling through crisis and stages of life
• Crisis: intervention (assessment/stabilization/problem solving)
• Grief and Loss Resources
• Advance Care Planning: Assist with conversations/decision making assistance regarding Health Care Proxies, MOLST, Living Wills, DNR, and Assuring Your Wishes
• Short-term Counseling Intervention
• Substance abuse evaluation and referrals
• Violence: Suspected family violence, including domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse

Contact Us

Social Work
750 East Adams Street
Room 1111
Syracuse, NY 13210

Phone: 315 464-6161 or TOLL FREE 800 528-5790
FAX: 315 464-5314 or 315 464-5315