Featured Presenters

Lynn Hallarman, MD
Director of Palliative Medicine
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook, NY

Denise Snow, JD, RN, CNM
Staff Attorney, Permanency Legal Assistance Needs Project (PLAN)
Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee, Inc.
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

About the Presentation

Palliative Care Medical-Legal Partnerships create a new paradigm for care of the seriously ill patient by identifying and addressing legal/financial distress as integral to a successful palliative care intervention. By meeting with the patient/family at the hospital bedside, the PC-MLP lawyer is able to address key legal problems as an integral part of a patient’s medical care and advocacy, which can then continue after discharge. Palliative care teams partner with these MLP pro-bono lawyers to ensure that patients and their families have access to expert legal assistance for health-related legal concerns created or aggravated by serious illness.

Join Us!

What You'll Learn

• Define a Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP).
• Identify triggers for Medical-Legal consultation and recognize individuals and families with Medical-Legal distress.
• Develop a Palliative Care Medical-Legal Partnerships (PC-MLP) in your community.

Who Should Attend?

Physicians, nurses, social workers, hospital administrators, chaplains and others involved in starting or expanding a palliative care program.

Call Details

• $99 per phone line with Audio-Conference Recording Audio File (MP3) download
• Payment is online by credit card only
• PowerPoint presentations accompany each audio conference
• You will have the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A session with the presenters
• Continue the discussion following the audio conference and post your questions and comments on CAPCconnect™ Forum in the “General Operational Topics” topic!
• We encourage you to invite your colleagues to listen with you

Any questions? Contact Margaret Schutz at (212) 201-2671 or margaret.schutz@mssm.edu