Navigating New Realities: Palliative Care and COVID-19 Implications for Clinical Practice - Part Two

The Catholic Health Association and the Supportive Care Coalition co-hosted this one hour webinar for palliative care teams being impacted by COVID-19. These webinars discuss the essential role of palliative care in the context of the pandemic with a facilitated question and answer session.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss leveraging technology for goals of care conversations, symptom management, care coordination, and other palliative care interventions

  2. Address the sources of caregiver moral distress and highlight opportunities for support

  3. Identify key workforce challenges such as the heightened demand for specialty palliative care alongside redeployment requests

  4. Identify signs of implicit bias against marginalized groups and review Catholic social teachings on human dignity

Facilitators

Olumuyiwa Adeboye, MD, MBA, FACP, FAAHPMMedical Director, Palliative CareAscension Health

Olumuyiwa Adeboye, MD, MBA, FACP, FAAHPM

Medical Director, Palliative Care

Ascension Health

Brian Kane, PhDSenior Director, EthicsCatholic Health Association of the United States

Brian Kane, PhD

Senior Director, Ethics

Catholic Health Association of the United States

MC Sullivan, RN, MTS, JDChief Healthcare EthicistDirector, Initiative for Palliative Care and Advance Care PlanningArchdiocese of Boston

MC Sullivan, RN, MTS, JD

Chief Healthcare Ethicist

Director, Initiative for Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning

Archdiocese of Boston

Gregg VandeKieft, MDMedical Director, Southwest Washington Region Palliative CareAssociate Medical Director, Providence Institute for Human CaringProvidence St. Joseph Health

Gregg VandeKieft, MD

Medical Director, Southwest Washington Region Palliative Care

Associate Medical Director, Providence Institute for Human Caring

Providence St. Joseph Health

Supportive Care Coalition