About the Conference

End-of-life care and the various options for patients with chronic, life-threatening diseases are becoming a centerpiece of health care reform discussions.  As more and more hospitals develop their in-house palliative care programs, this national initiative has moved to post-acute care settings using integrated delivery system models across the continuum of care.

HASC’s 4th annual Palliative Care Conference presents a comprehensive two-track program where you’ll learn how each piece of this movement is growing, demonstrating significant cost reduction and improved quality of care and quality of life for patients, families and communities.

Who Should Attend?

All health care professionals interested in delivering greater value to the organization should attend including CEOs, COOs, CNOs, quality directors, compliance officers, staff nurses, social workers, case managers, discharge planners, and administrators with an interest or specialty in palliative care.

Course Objectives

• Discover what the early Palliative Care (PC) continuum adopters learned in the past year.
• Identify the achievements in clinical and non-clinical performance outcomes, reduced readmission rates, the cost/quality business case and the overall long-term community benefit of PC, as the post-hospital continuum dots are connected. 
• Learn successful clinician training tactics for EOL sensitivities and protocols; and discover the keys to successful palliative and hospice management in Assisted Living and SNF facilities.

Agenda

Faculty 

June Simmons is the chief executive officer of Partners in Care Foundation.

Leeba Lessin is the President of CareMore.

Parag Bharadway, MD, is the medical director of palliative care medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Foundation.

Kim Phan is the chief executive officer and co-founder of GeriNet.

Chris Mlot, MD, is the president and co-founder of GeriNet.

Susan Poprock, JD, RN, has over thirty years experience in health care and health care administration. She currently serves as the vice president of professional services for Motion Picture & Television Fund in Woodland Hills, California, where she is involved in the design and provision of innovative services for the elderly, and is the executive sponsor for Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Palliative Care Program.  She participates in various professional associations and serves on the Nursing Advisory Board for CSU Northridge where she is a guest lecturer on ethics and legal issues in nursing.

Douglas Bates, MSSW, LMSW, LISAC, ACHP-SW, is a palliative care social worker for Motion Picture & Television Fund.  He received a bachelor of arts in psychology with a concentration in Gerontology and a master of science in social work with a focus in spirituality and Thanatology from his home state of Tennessee.  Bates began his career in Case Management with HIV/AIDs populations and then served as a Hospice Social Worker serving patients and families in inpatient hospice, home hospice care and supportive bereavement services.

Rabbi Arthur Rosenberg serves as rabbi and chaplain for the Motion Picture and Television Fund.  He has helped to define the spiritual program, noted as exemplary by the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care.  Additionally, the Motion Picture and Television Fund maintains the Rabbi Arthur Rosenberg Fund for Palliative Care, which was established by a grant made in his honor. 

Lesli Leder, RN, CHPN, is manager of palliative care for Motion Picture Television Fund.  She has dedicated her career to the profession of nursing, with close to 40 years of experience.  Steeped in the fundamentals of nursing—her hands-on experience has included Med/Surg, DOU, TCU, ICU/CCU, and both care and case management.  She has managed departments for network referrals, UR/QI, hospital Care management and insurance-based case management. She is certified in hospice and palliative nursing, and is a POLST trainer.

Linda Healy, GNP-ACPN, serves as a gerontological and palliative care nurse practitioner in outpatient clinic, acute hospital, community, and long-term care settings.  She has been an RN for 27 years and holds three national certifications as a nurse practitioner.  She received her master’s degree and certification as a family nurse practitioner from the University of Southern California, and her post-master’s certification as a gerontological nurse practitioner through the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also certified as a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner through NBCHPN.

Esiquio Casillas, MD, is the director of community-based services for the Los Angeles Jewish Home.

Susan Stone, MD, is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Palliative Medicine. She has worked to integrate palliative care into EM over the last seven years, including working within the safety net of southern California to develop palliative care at county hospitals. Through her service development at Los Angeles County Medical Center + USC, she developed critical insights that brought her to work with the California Healthcare Foundations on initiatives to roll out services to all California safety net hospitals. Currently she works with HealthCare Partners to build and strengthen outpatient palliative care service delivery.

Martha Jones, is vice president of Regional Care Management for Healthcare Partners.

Sponsorship

Ruby Sponsor – $3,000 (4 available)

Includes four (4) full conference registrations, recognition as a Palliative Care Conference sponsor of breakfast, lunch, morning, or afternoon break; room for an 8’ x 10’  exhibit booth with a six-foot table and two chairs in the conference vendor area; and prominent recognition on a digital display. 

Gold Sponsor – $1,500 (6 available)

Includes two (2) full conference registrations; a six-foot table for a tabletop display in the conference vendor area; and recognition on a digital display.

Silver Sponsor – $1,000 (5 available)

Includes one (1) full conference registration. This sponsorship level provides recognition as a Palliative Care Conference sponsor on a digital display. No vending opportunity is offered at this level.

Please contact us no later than February 15, 2012 to ensure your participation at the 2012 Palliative Care Conference.