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Community-Based Palliative Care: Trends, Challenges, Examples And Collaboration With Payers, Eric Wall Md, Mph

Palliative Care Institute

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eric Wall is the Pacific Northwest Medical Director for United Healthcare overseeing quality and affordability initiatives in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Dr. Wall is a board-certified family physician with 35 years of practice experience. He was formerly the Senior Medical Director for Qualis Health and before that, the Vice-President for Medical Affairs at Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon.

Dr. Wall graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and completed his family medicine residency at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital. He then pursued a Masters of Public Health at the University of Washington after …

Nausea/Vomiting/Anorexia, Bree Johnston Md, Mph

Palliative Care Institute

By the end of this talk, the learner should be able to: –Identify anorexia as a common source of distress for both patients and caregivers –Discuss the importance of framing and exploring meaning when dealing with patients with anorexia –Discuss the prevalence of anorexia, nausea, and vomiting among patients with serious illness –Discuss the evidence for various pharmacologic approaches to anorexia, nausea, and vomiting –Discuss nonpharmacologic approaches to anorexia, nausea, and vomiting

Realities Of Advanced Medical Interventions, Koala (Maureen) Connelly Rn, Cathy Mcconechy

Palliative Care Institute

Strategies for sharing risks and benefits of advanced medical interventions and the implications for patients’ abilities to make informed decisions.

Understanding Death With Dignity Legislation: A Necessity For The Palliative Care Provider, Frances Derook Md

Palliative Care Institute

Evidence and experience to date of Death with Dignity in Washington and Oregon.

Program - Palliative Care Summer Institute: Helping Providers Heal Without Cure, Palliative Care Institute

Palliative Care Institute

No abstract provided.

White Paper: Northwest Life Passages - Improving Care For Patients With Serious Illness In Whatcom County, Bree Johnston, Chris Phillips, Waha Outpatient Palliative Care

Northwest Life Passages Coalition Documents

Northwest Life Passages (NWLP) is a new collaborative service that aims to address shortcomings in care and improve services for people with serious illness and their families. The proposal is to operationally couple the outpatient palliative care services already provided by PeaceHealth and Family Care Network (FCN) with community-based support services being developed by the Whatcom Alliance for Health Advancement (WAHA). It is further being proposed that PeaceHealth and WAHA pursue a collaborative fundraising strategy that calls for WAHA to focus on the development of the community-based services and PeaceHealth Foundation to pursue support for the expansion of clinical services.