GENERALIST PALLIATIVE CARE: MOVING FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CULTURE CHANGE AND PATIENT OUTCOMES

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Eytan Szmuilowicz, MD
Director, Section of Palliative Medicine, Northwestern Medicine

Martha L. Twaddle, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Chief Medical Officer, Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center

Generalist palliative care refers to the basic skills all clinicians should achieve in caring for patients with serious illness. Those skills include basic symptom assessment and management, psychosocial support and matching appropriate care provided to patient goals and values. Translating generalist palliative care skills to goal-consistent care requires cultural and systematic change.
The presenters will describe an initiative that focuses on communication skills development for clinicians of various backgrounds from hospitals across Illinois. Started in the fall of 2011 as part of a larger initiative to address high readmission rates, the program has grown to include participants from 29 hospitals across the state. In addition to describing the project and preliminary results, the presenters will discuss lessons learned, and describe next steps from simply teaching generalist palliative care skills to influencing patient outcomes.
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What You'll Learn

• You will be able to define general palliative care and describe its importance in the continuum of care for seriously ill patients
• You will understand the link between goal-centered communication skills and high-quality medical care
• You will understand and be able to describe some of the steps necessary to move from general palliative care exposure to culture change
• You will be able to describe collateral benefits to your institution or system created by engaging in general palliative care development

Who Should Attend?

• Physician, nurse, social work, or chaplain palliative care educators
• Hospital and hospital system administrators
• Hospital and hospital system-quality improvement specialists
• Insurance company administrators and quality specialists

Call Details

• $99 per registered participant, which includes post event recording download
• Web conference event which requires live internet access. Audio portion may be accessed through toll line or through VOIP (computer speakers and/or headset/microphone).
• Payment is online by credit card only
• PowerPoint presentations accompany each event
• You will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the presenters
• Continue the discussion following the event at CAPCconnect™, the CAPC forum.

Any questions? Contact Margaret Schutz at (212) 201-2670 or margaret.schutz@mssm.edu