Kara Voss LSW
Schaumburg,IL
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Medical Social Worker
Alexian Brothers Medical Center
Elk Grove Village, IL
02.2024 - Current
- Covering Mom/Baby, NICU, Labor & Delivery, Telemetry, Stroke and Ortho units, caseload of 20 to 25 patients per day
- Completed initial biopsychosocial assessments
- Collaborated daily with physicians to drive continuity of care (interdisciplinary rounds every morning)
- Coordinated discharge plans to manage safe transition to nextlevel of care.
- Set up home health, hospice, dialysis, rehab (subacute and acute), inpatient psych placement and hospital transfers.
- Completing petition and cert for involuntary psych patients.
- Work closely with Adult Protective Services (APS) and DCFS for neglect and abuse cases and initiating guardianship when needed.
- Assisting mom's with appropriate resources for cribs, car seats, WIC, postpartum counselors, etc. As well as, working on adoption cases.
Medical Social Worker
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Hospital
Overland Park, KS
05.2023 - 02.2024
- Med-Surg unit, caseload of 20 to 25 patients, covering extra units when needed. Experience on mother/baby unit, completed assessments and connected new mothers to resources.
- Completed initial biopsychosocial assessments
- Collaborated daily with physicians to drive continuity of care (daily rounds)
- Coordinated effective discharge plans
- Completed hospice/end of life conversations, setting patient's up with hospice agency, etc. Assisted in setting up inpatient hospice when appropriate.
- Set IV antibiotics at home or infusion clinic at the hospital, home health, hospice, dialysis, rehab (subacute and acute), geri-psych placement and hospital transfers.
- Documented progress notes daily
- Worked closely with Adult Protective Services (APS) on self-neglect and elder abuse patients, and initiating guardianship.
- Effectively communicates and collaborates with all members of the interdisciplinary team
Medical Social Worker
Advocate Aurora Good Samaritan Hospital
Downers Grove, IL
12.2021 - 04.2023
- Patient population consists of med-surg, oncology, psych, ETOH/detox and bariatric patients.
- Case load of 32 patients, covering extra units when needed and covering entire hospital on weekends.
- Completed initial psychosocial assessment for patient and family needs.
- Developed safe discharge plans based on physician and therapy (PT/OT/ST) recommendation.
- Sent referrals and resumptions to SNF, acute rehab, dialysis and hospice; Setting up transportation.
- Completed hospice/ end of life conversations, connected patients with hospice agencies and coordinated placement if necessary.
- Worked with Adult Protective Services (APS) on self-neglect and elder abuse case.
- Assisted in completing DNR forms, helped designate a surrogate decision maker, and obtained DPOA paperwork.
- Effectively communicates and collaborates with all members of the interdisciplinary team
Medical Social Work Intern
Advocate Aurora Good Samaritan Hospital
Downers Grove, IL
05.2021 - 12.2021
- Managed a full caseload of 32 patients.
- Worked with patients and family members on discharge planning
- Completed biopsychosocial assessments.
- Sent new referrals and resumptions to SNF, acute rehab, dialysis and hospice; Setting up transportation.
- Effectively communicated and collaborated with all members of the interdisciplinary team.
Social Work Intern
Seasons Hospice And Palliative Care Inpatient Unit
Naperville, IL
08.2020 - 03.2021
- Coordinated with interdisciplinary team members to support patients, while continuing to evaluate patients and families experience with service outcomes.
- Carried a caseload of up to 15 hospice patients.
- Served patients and families from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse populations.
- Completed social visits with patients, allowed patients to address any of their concerns and questions, and came up with coping strategies.
- Conducted initial assessments, evaluated their bereavement risk level, and received feedback from patients and families.
- Followed bereaved clients to provide support, gathered information regarding their experiences on service and determine how their end-of-life experiences and bereavement risk levels impact their grieving.
Special Education Paraprofessional
School District 54
Schaumburg, IL
01.2019 - 12.2021
- Assisted the certified teacher with instructing and supervising children with special needs in classroom activities and continuously monitored these children to ensure safety at all times.
- Tested students on skills to ensure that students meet their IEP goals (zipping, handwriting, verbal skills, etc.).
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Alerted instructor to student behavior or issues requiring intervention.
Education
Master of Social Work - Medical Social Work
Aurora University
Aurora, IL12.2021
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology And Anthropology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL05.2018
Skills
- Biopsychosocial Assessment
- Time management
- Casemanagement / discharge planning
- EPIC and Cerner
- Careport and AIDA (referral system)
Certification
- Licensed Social Work - 150106939
- 3,000+ clinical supervision hours completed, application sent to state of Illinois to get approval to sit for LCSW exam
Timeline
Medical Social Worker
Alexian Brothers Medical Center
02.2024 - Current
Medical Social Worker
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Hospital
05.2023 - 02.2024
Medical Social Worker
Advocate Aurora Good Samaritan Hospital
12.2021 - 04.2023
Medical Social Work Intern
Advocate Aurora Good Samaritan Hospital
05.2021 - 12.2021
Social Work Intern
Seasons Hospice And Palliative Care Inpatient Unit
08.2020 - 03.2021
Special Education Paraprofessional
School District 54
01.2019 - 12.2021
Master of Social Work - Medical Social Work
Aurora University
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology And Anthropology
Lake Forest College