What We Learned About Palliative Care During the Pandemic – And Why These Lessons Matter for Patients and Workforce as We Rebuild

Join us for a Fireside Chat presented by American Hospital Association (AHA), Living Learning Network (LLN), and Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

Tuesday, November 2, 2021
11:30 am CST - 1:00 pm CST
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COVID-19 placed immense strain on health care professionals, with unrelenting exposure to the suffering of patients and family caregivers, as well as to the stress about personal safety. During the pandemic, hospitalists, specialists, nurses and other clinicians turned to palliative care teams to relieve patient suffering and facilitate difficult conversations, co-manage complex patients and provide just-in-time education to enhance their own skills in communication and pain and symptom management. Presenters will discuss the lessons learned from the front lines of the pandemic across the country: How do we use the experience of collaboration with palliative care teams during COVID to model a more inclusive, sustainable workforce that is also more effective at addressing patient suffering? How can health systems further integrate palliative care principles and practices into clinical workflow and care models for people with serious illness as well as their families?

• Michelle Hood, FACHE, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, AHA
• Brynn Bowman, MPA, Chief Executive Officer, CAPC
• Marie Cleary-Fishman, BSN, MS, MBA, Vice President of Clinical Quality, AHA
• Danielle Noreika, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, Medical Director of Palliative Services and Associate Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care
• R. Sean Morrison, MD, Professor and Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the LLN is a virtual AHA community for health systems and their hospitals to discuss, ideate and reform health care in response to COVID-19 with other health care leaders from across the field. The participating health systems and hospitals have access to a curated network of respected subject matter experts and distinguished colleagues to participate in real-world discussions, expand perspectives9 and problem-solve together.