Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker Names and Titles:
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Chief Medical Officer, MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care
Executive Director, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
Professor of Neurology and Family and Social Medicine,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bernard Lee, MD
Vice President for Medical Affairs
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care
Attending Physician, Montefiore Medical Center
Teaching Attending, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Myra Glajchen, DSW
Director of Medical Education
Associate Program Director, Fellowship Training Program
MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care

Jay Gormley, MS
Chief Strategy and Planning Officer
MJHS Health System

Purpose: Palliative care is a therapeutic approach appropriate for all types of serious chronic illnesses, the aim of which is to prevent or manage the suffering and illness burden experienced by the patient and family from the time of diagnosis forward. Specialist palliative care improves patient and family distress, enhances satisfaction with healthcare, improves goal-setting communication, and lowers healthcare utilization. A worldwide movement to improve access to palliative care has been evolving for more than 50 years, and for several decades, the United States has been among the leaders in creating models of care that provide access to specialist palliative care.

In the United States, hospital-based palliative care and home-based hospice care have been established for decades and have helped millions of patients, and their families, cope with the challenges associated with all types of chronic serious illnesses.

Objectives:
1) Explain the value proposition for palliative care overall and community-based palliative care
2) Examine the variation among models of care and the operational features that define them
3) Identify the elements of a financially sustainable, high-quality program in the changing US healthcare system

Why Do I Need to Know This?
Community-based palliative care—provided in the home by varied types of professionals according to the best practices of palliative care—is only now emerging. There are many challenges to the development and sustainability of these programs. “Creating a High Quality, Sustainable Program in Community-Based Palliative Care”, was created to provide all those working to change the healthcare system with up-to-date information about palliative care and the elements needed to develop and maintain community-based palliative care programs.

Target Audience: administrators, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, social workers, and other allied health professionals

Criteria for Successful Completion:
1) Attendance at entire session
2) Submission of completed evaluation form
3) Successful completion of a posttest: 70% passing grade

Continuing Education Credits: 6.5

“Creating a Sustainable Program in Community-Based Palliative Care” provides up to 6.5 continuing education credits for nurses and social workers who meet course completion requirements:

• Module 1 discusses the value proposition for palliative care (1 hour)
• Module 2 describes specialist-level palliative care including hospice (1.5 hours)
• Module 3 and 4 describe models and operations of community-based palliative care programs (1 hour each)
• Module 5 discusses the financial aspects and quality goals of a sustainable community-based palliative care program in the changing US healthcare system (2 hours)

You can select and complete the modules in any order.

CE Release Date: July 22, 2019

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

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.

System Requirements for Computers and Mobile Devices (minimum):
PC: Pentium 1.80 GHz Windows 7, 8; 1 GB RAM; 1024 X 768 monitor resolution; IE 10 IE 11, Safari 5.0, Google Chrome 37 (latest current version) Web browser; multimedia devices (audio speakers, graphic cards)
Tablet: 1.2 GHz processor; iOS 8 (iPad), Android 4.1; Safari (Apple iPad) Google Chrome (Android Tablets)

Fee: Free (includes CE certificates) for all five modules:

Module 1 – 1 hour 
Module 2 – 1.5 hours 
Module 3 – 1 hour 
Module 4 – 1 hour
Module 5 – 2 hours 

Disclosures:
Russell K. Portenoy, MD, Faculty and Planner, has indicated a relationship with Tabula Rasa for research support.

Bernard Lee, MD; Myra Glajchen, DSW; and Jay Gormley, MS, have 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 other Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Lara Dhingra, PhD
Colleen Fleming-Damon, PhD, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FT
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Helena Knotkova, PhD
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS
Wini Schein, BA

Funding Disclosure: This e-Learning Program has been made possible through the generosity of The Milbank Foundation. No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

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