Will Bromstedt Email & Phone Number

• Provide consultation to all inpatient service lines for complex patient discharges across Brigham Health system• Assess barriers related to patient discharges and operationalize tasks to resolve barriers. • Ensure timely implementation of the CCT patients plan of care, appropriate patient progression to discharge, helping to navigate any barriers to care.• Visit BWH and BWFH CCT patients and / or families to explain role, program, and ensure all elements critical to the plan and… Show more • Provide consultation to all inpatient service lines for complex patient discharges across Brigham Health system• Assess barriers related to patient discharges and operationalize tasks to resolve barriers. • Ensure timely implementation of the CCT patients plan of care, appropriate patient progression to discharge, helping to navigate any barriers to care.• Visit BWH and BWFH CCT patients and / or families to explain role, program, and ensure all elements critical to the plan and trajectory of care have been communicated, including the goal length of stay.• Participate in patient and family meetings to support the plan of care and discharge plan. • Communicate with internal interdisciplinary team members and external providers to alert providers and team about potential issues and solutions to barriers.• Document regularly in electronic medical record and routes messages to providers and clinicians as needed.• Submit EOHHS state escalation forms to facilitate collaboration with state ombudsperson.• Participate in bi-weekly meetings with state ombudsperson to collaborate and develop d/c plan for escalated patients• Networks and forms alliances with post-acute-care providers, discharge agencies, managed care networks and third-party payors.• Maintains excellent relationships with leaders of post-acute care organizations both within and external to Partners Healthcare; acts as a link between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and these organizations. • Track data across BWH and BWFH related to all cases involving outside counsel, including guardianship, conservatorship, HCP affirmation and guardianship authority expansion.• Analyze legal data and develop action plan to reduce delay days when seeking legal authorities.• Support Home Hospital escalations to assess and provide support around patients’ psychosocial stressors. Show less

• Monitor efficient utilization of healthcare resources, readmissions, and LOS issues via quality improvement projects• Participate regularly in hospital wide committees i.e., Acute Care Plans, Readmission Studies, and Patient Safety• Plan, develop, implement and assist in managing a program of clinical Social Work activities for Addiction Recovery (ARP) Social Workers and Social Work interns.• Provides specialty clinical supervision for Addiction Recovery Program Social… Show more • Monitor efficient utilization of healthcare resources, readmissions, and LOS issues via quality improvement projects• Participate regularly in hospital wide committees i.e., Acute Care Plans, Readmission Studies, and Patient Safety• Plan, develop, implement and assist in managing a program of clinical Social Work activities for Addiction Recovery (ARP) Social Workers and Social Work interns.• Provides specialty clinical supervision for Addiction Recovery Program Social Work staff.• Screens applicants for employment in designated Social Work roles with Social Work Manager.• Provides oversight of case assignments, productivity standards and time management for Social Work on ARP or as designated by Social Work Manager.• Performs annual performance evaluations of potential Social Work interns and ARP Social Workers. • Works with management of clinical service units, when indicated, to participate in program planning, identifying clinical Social Work needs and resolving problems. Organize activities with other departments/units to ensure efficient coordination of services. • Functions as a member of the Social Work Department’s Leadership Team to develop and implement clinical standards, policies/procedures, quality improvement activities for the department.• Fosters an environment of Social Work teamwork, flexibility, and collaboration among Social Workers, Case Management, Nursing and Medicine, and other team members. • Complete bio-psycho-social assessments for patients admitted for medical and surgical treatment. • Attend daily interdisciplinary rounds to further facilitate patient care and discharge planning.• Assume clinical evaluation, intervention and planning for patients with complex psychosocial risks. Show less

• Complete bio-psycho-social assessments for patients admitted for medical and surgical treatment. • Attend daily interdisciplinary rounds to further facilitate patient care and discharge planning.• Assume clinical evaluation, intervention and planning for patients with complex psychosocial risks.• Develop quality improvement project analyzing high risk patients and utilizers of emergency department as well as patients with frequent readmissions• Collaborate with inpatient… Show more • Complete bio-psycho-social assessments for patients admitted for medical and surgical treatment. • Attend daily interdisciplinary rounds to further facilitate patient care and discharge planning.• Assume clinical evaluation, intervention and planning for patients with complex psychosocial risks.• Develop quality improvement project analyzing high risk patients and utilizers of emergency department as well as patients with frequent readmissions• Collaborate with inpatient medicine, emergency department, PCPs and other outpatient providers to develop acute care plans for patients with frequent admissions or complex behavioral health issues.• Collaborate with local court and hospital attorneys as well as complete petition for Section 35 commitment hearings.• Evaluate patient and family coping styles and provide brief treatment as indicated.• Coordinate family meetings as appropriate to discuss topics such as patient goals of care, safety concerns and mental health and substance abuse aftercare treatment. • Facilitate community resources for patients to address psychosocial concerns in the community. • Identify healthcare decision makers for medical team, provide education about Health Care Proxies to patients and families and assist patients in completing Health Care Proxy documentation.• Collaborate with hospital attorneys and medical team to facilitate guardianship on behalf of patients, as indicated.• Assume on-call responsibility for hospital ambulatory sites including Emergency Room, pre-operative clinic and outpatient GI, and provide intervention for patients as indicated.• Participate in monthly patient-family education committee meetings, focused on optimizing hospital education delivery to patients and families. • Participate in monthly to bi-monthly Schwartz Center Rounds. • Provide mandated assessment when abuse is suspected, as well as screen for domestic violence, and file reports as indicated. Show less

• Complete comprehensive bio-psycho-social assessments for all patients upon initial meetings.• Collaborate with medical staff for comprehensive, patient-centered care.• Provide both short-term and long-term psychotherapy, including CBT, narrative and solutions-focused interventions, for patients coping with medical diagnoses and with mental health concerns.• Facilitate family meetings and provide therapeutic services and supportive counseling for patients’ families and… Show more • Complete comprehensive bio-psycho-social assessments for all patients upon initial meetings.• Collaborate with medical staff for comprehensive, patient-centered care.• Provide both short-term and long-term psychotherapy, including CBT, narrative and solutions-focused interventions, for patients coping with medical diagnoses and with mental health concerns.• Facilitate family meetings and provide therapeutic services and supportive counseling for patients’ families and caregivers.• Screen and counsel patients for suspected child, disabled and elder abuse as well as for domestic violence.• Inform patients about Advanced Directives/Health Care Proxy information and assist patients in completing necessary paperwork.• Provide patients with informed consent prior to their admission to the hospital for a Long-Term Video EEG Monitoring Procedure (LTM).• Collaborate with admitting department to schedule patients for LTM procedure.• Identify community resources for patients and families and advocate on their behalf when barriers are present.• Participate in ambulatory pager rotation, providing brief treatment and crisis intervention for patients in twenty ambulatory clinics.• Complete literature review for Behavioral Neurology social workers who developed a therapeutic peer program linking patients coping with Alzheimer’s disease to undergraduate students at Harvard University.• Edit a research paper exploring the implementation of a social work curriculum in a psychology graduate program for Jimma University in Ethiopia. Show less

Concord, Ma

• Provide individual counseling services to students with mental health and academic issues as well as to special education students.• Collaborate with guidance counselors, teachers and other faculty in meetings to address students’ concerns. • Assist students in achieving behavioral goals included on IEPs and provide quarterly evaluations of student progress towards goals.• Prepare psycho-educational presentations for students and visiting faculty, including exchange students from… Show more • Provide individual counseling services to students with mental health and academic issues as well as to special education students.• Collaborate with guidance counselors, teachers and other faculty in meetings to address students’ concerns. • Assist students in achieving behavioral goals included on IEPs and provide quarterly evaluations of student progress towards goals.• Prepare psycho-educational presentations for students and visiting faculty, including exchange students from Turkmenistan and for students during Mental Health Awareness week. • Foster small lunch groups where students process academic and social concerns. Show less

Providence, Ri

• Provide intensive community tracking and 24 hour crisis intervention to adolescents involved with the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)• Conduct client/family assessments and establish individual treatment plans• Advocate for physical and social needs with juvenile court, schools, medical/mental health professionals, employers and community organizations• Monitor and document court-ordered curfews through phone and in-person meetings• Organize and… Show more • Provide intensive community tracking and 24 hour crisis intervention to adolescents involved with the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)• Conduct client/family assessments and establish individual treatment plans• Advocate for physical and social needs with juvenile court, schools, medical/mental health professionals, employers and community organizations• Monitor and document court-ordered curfews through phone and in-person meetings• Organize and implement individual and group therapeutic recreational activities• Facilitate family meetings to foster positive parent/child communication Show less

Masters Of Social Work, Clinical/Medical Social Work

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology