June 17, 2020 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

The Evolving Role of Palliative Care: A Pandemic Edition

Location: Online

Registration Deadline: June 17, 2020

Overview

Palliative care is a rapidly emerging specialty, and one that has been recognized for its focus on individualized care and quality of life in patients with serious and life-threatening illness. Those patients with frailty and underlying serious illness have been identified as having increased risk from the novel coronavirus. The support of these particular patients, and the unique role of palliative care during the pandemic, has been an important piece of the COVID-19 response. This presentation will provide information and insights into specialty palliative care and its utilization across a continuum to improve patients’ quality of life, including its integration as we face a pandemic and beyond.

Topics to be covered include the differences between hospice and palliative care, the evolving role of palliative care in terminal and serious illnesses, strategies for palliative care program utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential future directions of palliative care delivery.

Objectives

Define palliative care and recognize the similarities and differences between palliative care and hospice care
Describe the evolution of specialty palliative care and its growth in the management of serious illness
Illustrate examples of how specialty palliative care teams are meeting needs of patients/families, communities, and health systems (including during the current COVID-19 pandemic)
Consider the evolving role of palliative care can play now to assist with patient care, including symptom management for patients facing respiratory illness, communication when patients and families are isolated, and assisting with the psychosocial distress that may emerge from social disconnection around the end of life

Presenter

Dr. Dillon Stein is a fellowship-trained palliative care physician, and current Co-Director of the Division of Palliative Care at Butler Health System in Butter, PA. He received his medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia; followed by completion of an Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh. Dillon went on to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to complete a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2016. As a palliative care physician at the Butler Health System, he provides coverage of an inpatient palliative care consult team as well as the outpatient palliative care clinic. In addition to his role as department co-director, he is the current Chair of the Department of Medicine and a contributor to the BHS Innovation Team.

Registration Information

Although this webinar is free of charge, you must register to attend.

Registration deadline is June 16.

How the Webinar Will Work

There is no limit to the number of staff from your office per connection who can tune in to the seminar via speakerphone and computer. Enjoy the benefits of attending a live conference without having to leave the office.

Upon receipt of registration, confirmation will be emailed to the registrant. Connection information will be emailed to each registrant’s email address approximately 24 hours prior to the program, including information on how to obtain handout materials for the conference. If you do not receive an email by this date, contact HAP Education Services at (717) 561-5270.

Questions

For registration information, or if you need special accommodations, please contact HAP Education Services at (717) 561-5270.

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