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: This live online webinar, LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care, with a beginning date of February 20, 2024, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 1.0 prescribed credit by the American Academy of Family Physicians. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1.0 credit(s)^™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.
Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: February 20, 2024

Expiration Date: February 20, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); July 1, 2024 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

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
Lara Dhingra, PhD
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Helena Knotkova, PhD
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS
Wini Schein, BA

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

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