Coalition Audio Conferences

The Coalition routinely broadcasts educational offerings from its quarterly board meetings.  To be added to our distribution list for notification of upcoming audio conferences, please email Peggy.Berwick@providence.org.

To view PowerPoint presentations from previous audio conferences, simply click the title of interest.  It may take up to 30 seconds to download.

•  Building a System-Wide Foundation for Palliative Care: Bon Secours Journey  
   March 14,2007

    Presented by Maria Gatto, Director of Palliative Care, Bon Secours Heatlh System


 • The Personal Health Record's Role in Supportive Care - The Link for Patients, Families and Caregivers
    November 2, 2007
    
The current state of healthcare demands a new model of care to support chronic disease management and patient partnership in care. The Whatcom Health Information Network (HInet), and the Pursuing Perfection Program in Whatcom County, Washington has accomplished just that - a private intranet system that connects provider communities to one another and facilitates communication with patients, families and caregivers to support a shared care plan.  Participants will learn how this connection can make a difference in end-of-life care. Presented by Lori Nichols, director of the Whatcom Health Information Network, LLC (HInet) and Pursuing Perfection Program, owned by St. Joseph Hospital, a member of PeaceHealth

• Palliative Care from the Inside Out
  December 6, 2007

CHRISTUS VNA Hospice and Palliative Care will share ways to relieve the hospital’s burden of creating a separate and unique Palliative Care Team by working with a community-based hospice that supports palliative care as well as the terminally ill. Presented by Christina McClean, RN, MSN, CHPN, Director of CHRISTUS VNA Hospice and Palliative Care in San Antonio, TX.

• The Changing Face of Advance Care Planning: Caring Conversations As One Example
April 3, 2008

This presentation provides a brief historical overview of advance care planning, information  about the paradigm shift from a legal transactional model to a communications model of advance care planning and what has motivated this change, exposure to Caring Conversations as a model developed by the Center for Practical Bioethics and be informed of several other transactional models, awareness of how Faith communities through the Compassion Sabbath Program have been engaged in advancing the new ACP model, information about National Healthcare Decisions Day, April 16, and how to become involved in it.
Presented by Myra Christopher, President of the Center for Practical Bioethics.