Grow your expertise in palliative and supportive care at the 6th Annual Palliative Care Transitions Conference, February 25, 2014, at the Hilton Pasadena.

This year’s program will focus on the latest evolution of palliative care transitions across pre- and post-acute care settings, bringing speakers equipped to share experiences from varied perspectives on how best to deliver care to patients with advanced disease. Attendees will represent providers at various stages of palliative care program implementation, sharing multidisciplinary team and multi-agency collaborative best practices. Specific clinical challenges facing this patient population, and early data demonstrating steady progress toward the triple aim in several local continuum delivery models in Southern California will stimulate further movement of transforming payment and delivery reform efforts.

Presentations

The Palliative Care Evolution in Coordinated Care Integration
Charles von Gunten, MD, Ohio Health

Health Policy Issues
Judy Citko, JD, Executive Director, Coalition for Compassionate Care

Clinical Challenges with Depression Comorbidities and the Palliative Care Patient
Scott Irwin, MD, PhD, Director, Psychiatry & Psychosocial Services, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center/Director, Palliative Care Psychiatry, UC San Diego Health System Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Care Transitions Programs – Where Does Palliative Care Fit In?
Moderator: Josh Luke, PhD, FACHE, Vice President, Post Acute Services, Torrance Memorial Health System
Panelists: Ujjwala S. Dheeriya, MD, Torrance Memorial Medical Center and William Bracciodietta, MD, Senior Medical Director, Health Essentials

Breakout A – Program Certification and Clinician Credentialing
Helen McNeal, Executive Director, CSU Institute for Palliative Care at California State University San Marcos and Parkview Community Hospital Team: Tarek Mahdi, MD, CMD, FAAFP, Kenneth Ross, Chaplain, Raul Moreno, RN, Jaquolin Skandr, RN and Martha Uribe, LCSW

The Triple Aim in the Care Continuum: Is it Achievable?
Jay Thomas, MD, Lead Physician, Palliative Care, HealthCare Partners
Martha Jones, Vice President, Regional Care Management, HealthCare Partners

A special thank you to our sponsors!

Objectives

• Hear from a national expert on the positive impacts of embracing the palliative care continuum ‘spread’.
• Describe how Certified Hospice and Palliative Care physician team leaders work.
• Illustrate how complex patients with co-morbidities like depression, dementia or dependencies are approached by multi-disciplinary teams beyond pain symptom management.
• Learn how skilled nursing facilities, hospices and home care agencies;link into the efforts of hospitals and physician groups in community-focused, patient-centered supportive care.
• Gain information on turning physician resistance into physician champions.
• Illustrate the dynamics of cultural diversity as they relate to care.

Primary Audience:
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.

For more information, please contact Jamila Mayers, (213) 538-0700, jmayers@hasc.org.

Agenda

7:30 – 8:15 a.m.

Registration / Breakfast / Visit with Exhibitors

8:15 – 8:30 a.m.

Welcome
Marcia Penido, Chair, HASC Palliative Care Committee

8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

The Palliative Care Evolution in Coordinated Care Integration
Charles von Gunten, MD, Ohio Health

9:30 – 10:20 a.m.

Health Policy Issues
Judy Citko, JD, Executive Director, Coalition for Compassionate Care

10:20 – 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 – 11:20 a.m.

Clinical Challenges with Depression Comorbidities and the Palliative Care Patient
Scott Irwin, MD, PhD
Director, Psychiatry & Psychosocial Services, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, Director, Palliative Care Psychiatry, UC San Diego Health System, Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, UC San Diego School of Medicine

11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.

Care Transitions Programs – Where Does Palliative Care Fit In?
Moderator: Josh Luke, PhD, FACHE, VP, Post Acute Services, Torrance Memorial Health System

Panelists:

Ujjwala S. Dheeriya, MD, Torrance Memorial Medical Center

William Bracciodietta., MD, Senior Medical Director, Health Essentials

12:20 – 1:20 p.m.

Lunch / Visit with Exhibitors

1:20 – 2:20 p.m.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A – Program Certification and Clinician Credentialing
Helen McNeal, Executive Director, CSU Institute for Palliative Care at California State University San Marcos and

Tarek Mahdi, M.D., CMD, FAAFP, Kenneth Ross, Chaplain, Raul Moreno, RN, Jaquolin Eskandr, RN, and Martha Uribe, LCSW
Parkview Community Hospital

B – Cultural Diversity
David Kessler, RN, Palliative Care Consultant
Carlos Priestley, Chief Operating Officer, Providence Little Company of Mary – San Pedro
Natalie Moy, Director, Patient Care Management, Riverside County Regional Medical Center

C – Difficult Conversations
Michael Hunn, Senior Vice President/Regional Chief Executive
Providence Health & Services – Southern California
Finly Zachariah, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Department of Supportive Care, City of Hope
Alice Gunderson, Patient and Family Adviser, St. Francis Medical Center

2:20 – 2:30 p.m.

Break / Return to General Session

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

The Triple Aim in the Care Continuum: Is it Achievable?
Jay Thomas, MD, Lead Physician, Palliative Care, HealthCare Partners
Martha Jones, Vice President, Regional Care Management, HealthCare Partners

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Wrap-Up
George Mack, Vice President, Payer/Provider & Member Relations