Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Sean O’Mahony, MB BCh BAO, MS, FAAHPM
Section Director Palliative Medicine, Rush University Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College
Co-Director, Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program

Purpose: LGBTQ people experience disparate treatment in many different settings; this extends to healthcare. Although LGBTQ people have seen advances in legal protections in the last two decades, there has been a recent backlash with enactment of legislation that is hostile to LGBTQ people across the country. We will address the research evidence based on disparate experiences for LGBTQ people in the healthcare systems. We will address ways that individual clinicians can enhance the care of LGBTQ people and ways that healthcare systems can provide access to care that is inclusive towards LGBTQ people and their families of choice.

Objectives:  

1. Present results of a patient and family national survey on the experience of hospice and palliative care for LGBT people
2. Explain sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) terminology to create an accepting environment
3. Recognize the importance of providing care to LGBT patients and their loved ones at end of life
4. Identify barriers to providing this care
5. Implement best practices to create change

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care Interprofessional Webinar Series - On Demand (4), and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 10/10/2024 to 10/10/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care is approved for 1.0 enduring AAFP Elective credit.
Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Case Managers: This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers. The course is approved for 1.0 CE contact hour.
To claim this CE, log into your CCMC Dashboard at www.ccmcertification.org.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: February 1, 2024

Expiration Date: January 16, 2026 (for physicians and non-physicians); May 9, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2028 (for NYS Social Workers); November 18, 2025 (for Case Managers)

Disclosures:

Sean O’Mahony, MB BCh BAO, MS, FAAHPM, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/