Upcoming Event:
2010 Annual Meeting
Details to be announced
Past Events:
Continuing the Conversation: Addressing Barriers to End-of-Life Care
7th Annual Conference of the Connecticut Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care
April 23, 2010
Albertus Magnus College, Hubert Campus Center
915 Winchester Ave. (Please note corrected address)
New Haven, CT 06511
Power Point Presentations available in schedule below
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Co-Sponsors
Hospital of St. Raphael
Yale School of Nursing
The Mary Wade Home
Title VII Older American’s Act funding from the Federal Administration on Aging and CT Dept of Social Services Aging Services Division
Goals
- Highlight progress in end-of-life care in multiple populations and settings.
- Provide a multidisciplinary perspective to end-of-life care efforts.
- Describe the unmet needs of end-of-life health care providers.
7:30-8:30: Registration, Networking, Exhibits, Continental Breakfast
- Plenary: 8:30-9:30: Impact of Palliative Care Programs for Specific Geographic Areas
Faculty: Sean O’Mahony MB, BCH, BAO, Medical Director, Palliative Care Services, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY
Method: Lecture/Discussion
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Welcome: 9:30-9:40: David Hunter, President CT Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care
- Keynote: 9:40-10:40: Palliative Care in Connecticut: Perspectives from the Past and Barriers to the
Future
Faculty: Lawrence Solomon MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale Medical School
Method: Lecture/Discussion
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10:40-11:00: Coffee Break and Exhibits
- Plenary: 11:00 to 12:00: Futility Issues: Facilitating Goals of Care at the End-of-Life
Faculty: Karen Stanley, RN, MSN, AOCN,FAAN, Program Manager, Pain and Palliative Care Service, Stamford Hospital; Kate McEvoy, JD, Deputy Director, Agency on Aging of South Central CT Inc; Deborah Ferretti, Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care, Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain.
Method: Panel and Role Play
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12:00 to 12:45: Lunch
- Plenary: 12:45 to 1:15: Unmet Needs of Ct End-of-Life Health Care Providers: Ct Cancer Partnership and Ct Coalition End-of-Life Survey Results
Faculty: Dena Schulman-Green, PhD, Research Scientist, Yale School of Nursing
Method: Lecture/Discussion
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1:15 to 1:25: Break
- 1:25 to 2:25: Breakout Sessions:
- Addressing Spiritual Issues at the end-of-life
Facilitator: Chaplain Barbara Morrison
Faculty: Rabbi Steven Steinberg, Chaplain, Hospital of St. Raphael; Chaplain Daniel Petronella, Director of Pastoral Services, UCONN Health Center; Imam Bilal Ansari, Islamic Chaplain, Hartford Seminary
Method: Panel/Discussion
- Reflections on Personal Experiences: Improving Conversation in Pediatric Palliative Care
Faculty: Leonard Comeau, MD, Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center; Eileen O’Shea, DNP, RN, Assistant Professor, Fairfield University School of Nursing; Robin Kanarek, RN, BSN, President, Kanarek Family Foundation
Method: Lecture/Discussion
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- Psychiatric Pearls: Causes and Consequences of Complicated Grief
Faculty: Richard O’Sullivan, MD, Principal Psychiatrist, Western CT. Mental Health Center
Method: Lecture/Discussion
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2:25-2:40: Coffee Break and Exhibits
- Plenary: 2:40-3:40: Healing the Heart and Mind: Mindfulness in Practice
Faculty: Michael Baime MD, Director, Penn Program for Mindfulness
Method: Lecture/Demonstration/Discussion
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3:40-4:00: Closing Remarks, Evaluations
Award Certificates
September 17, 2009
ANNUAL MEETING
May 29, 2009
MAKING FRIENDS WITH DEATH: A BUDDHIST GUIDE TO ENCOUNTERING MORTALITY
Judith L. Lief
April 3, 2009
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION: ADVANCES IN END-OF-LIFE CARE
January 21, 2009
CULTURE MATTERS IN END-OF-LIFE CARE
Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW
Associate Professor, UCONN School of Social Work
October 24th, 2008
Continuing the Conversation: COMPASSIONATE CARE OF THE DYING TRAINING IN AUTHENTIC PRESENCE
Susan Taney
Sharon Keegan
Nealy Zimmerman
September 11th, 2008
10th Year Anniversary Annual Meeting & Luncheon: THIRD PERSON OBSERVANT OR FIRST PERSON PRESENT
Linda Pellico, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, Yale School of Nursing
January 29th, 2008
AN OVERVIEW of CHANGES to CONNECTICUT'S HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES and CONSERVATOR LAW
Kate McEvoy, Esq.
Deputy Director-Agency on Aging of South Central
November 8th, 2007
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT FUNERALS BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!
The times they are a-changin’....
From funeral rockets to mountaintop memorials, Americans are moving toward more colorful, personalized ways to say goodbye to loved ones. Such services often include “comfort” music, favorite foods, photographs and other mementos that celebrate the individuality of the dead.
Grieving families also are holding theme receptions and having cremated
remains embedded in reefs or compressed into gemstones.
Order Updated Coalition Booklet Today
The Connecticut Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care has updated their booklet entitled "Beginning the Conversation about Death, Dying and End-of-Life Care in Connecticut" and has recently reduced the cost to $5/copy. Please click here for more information and to order copies
