Oncology Social Work
Providing resources to make your stay more comfortable and your transition to home easier.
Dealing with the challenges of cancer treatment can be overwhelming. Our social workers — specializing in the challenges associated with cancer and its treatment — help patients and their families cope. Our social workers may assist with:
- Advance directives/living wills
- Alternative living arrangements
- Caregiver concerns
- Counseling
- Disability questions
- Durable medical equipment
- Educational information
- Emotional distress
- Extended care services
- Financial assistance
- Hair loss resources
- Health insurance issues
- Home health services
- Hospice care
- Income loss
- Interpreter services
- Legal issues
- Lifeline 24-hour medical alert system
- Lodging
- Problem solving
- Psychosocial assessments
- Rehabilitation
- Religious/spiritual concerns
- Respite care
- Social issues
- Support groups
- Transportation
- Workplace issues
Contact
Methodist Hospital
8303 Dodge St.
Omaha, NE 68114
An oncology-certified social worker is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and through the main hospital operator seven days a week 402-354-4000.
Oncology social work is provided free of charge to patients through the generosity of the Methodist Hospital Foundation and its cancer survivorship program, Harper's Hope.