University Hospital
Socialwork Services
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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
  • Crisis: Counseling through crisis and stages of life
  • Crisis: intervention (assessment/stabilization/problem solving)
  • Grief and Loss Resources
  • Health Care Proxies: Decision making assistance regarding health care proxies and advanced directives
  • Short-term Counseling Intervention
  • Substance abuse evaluation and referrals
  • Support groups
    • Transplant
    • Brain injury
    • Alcoholics anonymous
    • Teen pregnancy
    • Pediatric cancer
  • Violence: Suspected family violence, including domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse


Contact Us

Continuum of Care Department
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

750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210-1834
Phone: 315 464-5540
Toll Free: 877 464-5540



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