Leading the Way to Community-Based Palliative Care Success

Wednesday, October 14, 2015: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Mustang 2 (Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center) - Lone Star Tower - Level 3
Primary Presenter:
Helen McNeal, BBA , CSU Institute for Palliative Care, San Marcos, CA
Co-presenters:
Karl E. Steinberg, MD, CMD , Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc., Oceanside, CA , Kathleen Kerr, BA , Healthcare Analytics, Mill Valley, CA and Stacy Starkka, PhD(c), MBA, CT , CSU Institute for Palliative Care, San Marcos, CA
As palliative care moves into the community, who better than your organization to provide palliative care?  Do you know what it takes?  Are you ready to lead the way? As an organization?  As a professional? This highly interactive workshop will ensure that you and your organization know what it takes to deliver palliative care, and to create a clear, defined path that is right for your organization and will lead to success.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the organizational capabilities required for an organization to successfully implement a community-based palliative care program
2. Identify critical areas on which their organization must focus in order to successfully implement a palliative care program
3. Create a working framework that can be used to assess organizational readiness and plan the implementation of a palliative care program


CE/CME: Pharmacist, Nurse, Physician and Social Worker