Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Michael Mencias, MD, FAAHPM
Senior Hospice Physician
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes and challenges to our health care system. It amplified existing problems and created new barriers to health care delivery. The Hospice and Palliative Care specialty, like any other field in medicine, has not been spared from this. This webinar will discuss the history of this pandemic, the changes that happened in response to this pandemic, and the challenges and opportunities it has created.

Objectives:  

1. Provide a brief history of COVID-19 in the past year
2. Identify the changes in the health care system specifically affecting the specialty of Hospice and Palliative Care
3. Describe the challenges and opportunities as a result of the pandemic

Target Audience: Primary care providers, nurse practitioners, palliative care specialists, pain specialists, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, social workers, allied health professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students

Criteria for Successful Completion:

1. Attendance at entire session
2. Submission of completed evaluation form
3. Successful completion of a posttest; 80% passing grade (mandatory to receive CE credit for social workers)

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees:
Individual: Free (includes CE certificate)

Release Date: February 1, 2021

Expiration Date: February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Michael Mencias, MD, FAAHPM, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has financial disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/