Thursday, October 19, 2006

Featured Speakers:

Mary Ann Gill, MA, RN
Executive Director, Palliative Care Services, Mount Carmel Health System
Philip H. Santa-Emma, MD
Medical Director, Palliative Care Services, Mount Carmel Health System

Ms. Gill and Dr. Santa-Emma also lead the Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC) at Mt. Carmel.

About the Presentation:

Hospitals and hospices constantly struggle to provide their patients with better access to high quality services. Strong partnerships between hospital-based palliative care programs and hospices help to ensure greater access to care across the continuum. This audio conference will detail the improved processes, systems and interventions that result when these partnerships are strengthened.

You will learn:

• Strategies for improving the alignment of hospital and hospice services through hospital-based palliative care programs
• The benefits to hospitals, hospices and medical staff that result from improved palliative care linkages
• How to navigate hospice patients through the hospital setting and better understand the resulting hospital fiduciary responsibilities
• The fiduciary responsibilities of hospices as patients enter hospitals for urgent/emergent care
• The impact on physicians and physician relationships

Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation.