Event Type 2: Hospice/Palliative Care

Join We Honor Veterans on July 29 at 3 p.m. ET in welcoming Dr. Kimberly Garner, MD, JD, MPH, FAAFP, CHCQM, Rehabilitation and Extended Care Integrated Clinical Communities Lead at the South Central Veterans Health Care System Network. Dr. Garner is also the Project Lead for the award-winning quality initiative, Advance Care Planning via Group Visits (ACP-GV). She will be joined by Elise Passy, MPH, MAEd, CDP, Director of Health Systems at the Alzheimer’s Association.

This free webinar will include:

• An overview of dementia, including information on demographics and disease progression
• A review of prevalence and unique risk factors for dementia among Veterans, including a discussion of caring for comorbid PTSD and dementia
• Insights on providing end-of-life care to Veterans with dementia
• A presentation on resources for supporting providers caring for Veterans with dementia at end of life
• introduction to ACP-GV and insights for using it with Veterans in the community

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July 31 at 1:00pm CST/12:00pm MST

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) will host a webinar July 31 on, “How Palliative Care Can Support Caregivers in Policy and Practice.”

State policymakers often neglect the link between caregiver support and palliative care access. Caregivers face isolation, lack information, and need better training. Palliative care can help, but more support is necessary for wider access.

In this webinar, the panel will explore the most pressing needs of caregivers; how palliative care can be deployed to meet these needs; and current policy initiatives in both areas. Speakers include:

• Scott Bane, JD, MPA, Senior Program Officer, JAHF
• Jonathan Cottor, MBA, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, Founder, National Center for Pediatric Palliative Care Homes
• Salom Teshale, PhD, Senior Policy Associate, The National Academy for State Health Policy
• Stacie Sinclair, MPP, Associate Director, Policy and Care Transformation, CAPC

Combining the evidence base with subject matter experts, the webinar aims to empower state policymakers and champions looking to alleviate caregiver burden through palliative care strategies.

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August 2 at 1:00pm CST/12:00pm MST

August 6 at 1:00pm CST/12:00pm MST

One way we can increase access to palliative care is to get better at describing it. Based on in-depth audience research, we know what works and why. Join CAPC for a deep dive into concrete ways palliative care clinicians can influence perceptions of palliative care in their interactions with patients and families, clinical colleagues, and the public. We’ll help you develop your palliative care elevator pitch and share answers to the most frequently asked questions about communicating palliative care, increasing referrals, and using social media for positive impact.

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August 14 at 1:00pm CST/12:00pm MST

Join this small-group consulting call to ask questions and discuss health disparities that exist in the care of people living with serious illness—specifically, palliative care. This includes talking through effective strategies to increase self-awareness in contributing to implicit bias, normalizing difficult conversations with team members, and sharing ways to create a culture of transparency and accountability within our organization(s).

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August 15 at 11:30am CST/10:30am MST

Purpose: Are advance directives always helpful? This webinar will discuss ethical decision-making in the context of directive documents which may no longer apply.

Objectives:

• Describe findings in the literature on stability of patient preferences over time and health status
• Identify ethical questions raised when the only advance directive documents available are either outdated or drafted under significantly different clinical circumstances
• Interrogate the value of advance directive documents for ethical decision-making in such cases

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2:00 – 4:00 PM ET

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2:00 – 4:00 PM ET

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET

A two-hour, comprehensive workshop on why, when, and how to safely prescribe buprenorphine.

CAPC is partnering with RE-UP to offer a series of clinical training workshops to help clinicians confidently manage pain for some of the most complex patients. Taught by expert faculty, Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA, and Katie Fitzgerald Jones, PhD, ACHPN, CARN-AP, these workshops synthesize the evidence and best practices for chronic pain management for patients living with a serious illness, with or without substance use disorder, and introduce an important treatment for the clinician’s toolbox: buprenorphine.

Cost: $100 for CAPC members; $125 for non-members

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The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is partnering with RE-UP—a unique education program focused on the intersection of serious illness, chronic pain, and opioid complexity, including substance use disorder—to offer this workshop.

In this interactive one-hour workshop, attendees will hear case studies of patients with serious illness who have chronic pain, with or without concurrent substance use disorder. Attendees will discuss the cases together to determine safe, effective, and evidence-based pain management prescribing strategies for each patient—all while building a trusting patient-clinician relationship.

• THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
• THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
• THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

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Cost: Members: $45.00; Non-members: $60.00

• Interested in becoming a CAPC member? Contact membership@capc.org.
  SDAHO members will receive a 15% discount on their first year of CAPC membership.