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:
Discuss leveraging technology for goals of care conversations, symptom management, care coordination, and other palliative care interventions
Address the sources of caregiver moral distress and highlight opportunities for support
Identify key workforce challenges such as the heightened demand for specialty palliative care alongside redeployment requests
Identify signs of implicit bias against marginalized groups and review Catholic social teachings on human dignity
Facilitators
Olumuyiwa Adeboye, MD, MBA, FACP, FAAHPM
Medical Director, Palliative Care
Ascension Health
Brian Kane, PhD
Senior Director, Ethics
Catholic Health Association of the United States
MC Sullivan, RN, MTS, JD
Chief Healthcare Ethicist
Director, Initiative for Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning
Archdiocese of Boston
Gregg VandeKieft, MD
Medical Director, Southwest Washington Region Palliative Care
Associate Medical Director, Providence Institute for Human Caring
Providence St. Joseph Health