Inland Empire Palliative Care Coalition

Community Advanced Care Planning & Polst events are now being formed for 2015! Contact Us to Learn about Community Events in Your Area!

Who Can Benefit From Palliative Care? Diane E. Meier, MD, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, discusses how palliative care can benefit anyone facing a serious illness at any stage... http://t.co/61W7cSIIPc

February 18th, 2015. Join us for our Monthly General Membership meeting from 6:00-8:00p.m. (Dinner will be Served) Our speaker this month will be: Marilyn Stoner, PhD, RN, CHPN she will be speaking about 'The Silver Hour' - The Silver Hour is my model for end of life care across the health care delivery system. It is the metaphorical 30 minutes before and after death. During this sensitive time clinicians should do everything they can to ensure the patient and family have a peaceful death given the circumstances. There are many experts who have worked for years in end of life care. My work focuses on care of the imminently dying person and their family and using evidence as well as information from the arts to guide the deliver of care. Please Share this Post and RSVP to: [email protected]

Register Now! Inland Empire Palliative Care Coalition's 10th Annual Conference - March 12, 2015 at Etiwanda Gardens Palliative Care: From Concept to Collaboration This year IEPCC will be hosting our annual conference in-conjunction with HASC (Hospital Association of Southern California). We anticipate this being a fantastic and informational event! Learn why the new term supportive care has become the preferred term to better differentiate between curative care, ...palliative care, and hospice care, and how this has integrated physician specialists to embrace the multi-disciplinary teamwork as well as growing the numbers of Certified Palliative Care & Hospice physician champions. Visit: http://www.hasc.org/2015-palliative-care-conference for more info! or www.iepcc.org

EPCC November Pre-Holiday Mixer-Nov. 19th 6:00p.m. Please join us for an evening of socializing and visiting with coalition friends, discussing coalition news, and offering suggestions for topics of discussion in 2015. Enjoy some wine (or other non-alcoholic beverages) and great hot and cold appetizers at 6:00p.m. at the RCMA facilities in Riverside!... November Pre-Holiday Mixer-Nov. 19th 6:00p.m. Please RSVP to Nanette Bernstein at: [email protected] or 951 686-3342 for more information

IEPCC November Pre-Holiday Mixer-Nov. 19th 6:00p.m. Please join us for an evening of socializing and visiting with coalition friends, discussing coalition news, and offering suggestions for topics of discussion in 2015. Enjoy some wine (or other non-alcoholic beverages) and great hot and cold appetizers at 6:00p.m. at the RCMA facilities in Riverside!... November Pre-Holiday Mixer-Nov. 19th 6:00p.m. Please RSVP to Nanette Bernstein at: [email protected] or 951 686-3342 for more information

Training Opportunities.... Coalition for the Compassionate Care of California NEW! - 24/7 Online Training Working with POLST for Professionals:... Extended learning through the CSU Institute for Palliative Care This 3-hour, online, self-paced course is designed to help healthcare professionals understand the role and value of POLST, and how to employ it in documenting and honoring patient wishes. This course was developed in collaboration with the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. Course: $50 See website for more course details. http://coalitionccc.org/training-events/polst-education

From the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California.... There’s a new level of energy across the nation around advance care planning, palliative medicine and end-of-life care. California is ready to lead the charge, and the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California is playing a major role in expanding the conversation about serious illness and end-of-life care. Thanks to your past support, we launched a statewide initiative focused on inspiring conversations about ...end-of-life planning. Working with more than 25 community coalitions around the state, we’re building a grassroots movement to engage our neighbors in exploring and expressing their wishes for care toward the end of their lives. California is an innovator in end-of-life and palliative care, and CCCC has helped make this happen. We lead the nation in developing best practices and successful models. When you support CCCC, we can impact the way people think and talk about serious illness, death and dying. Please make a gift today. To do so: Visit coalitionccc.org Today!

Dr. Timothy Dauwalder, D.O. to speak at the IEPCC General Membership Meeting this month. The monthly coalition meetings are a great way to keep up with what's happening with all coalition news. Please consider joining us for our next meeting in November. Contact Lynne at [email protected] for more info!

Coalition for Compassionate Care of California Workshop... Building Bridges: Cultural Diversity & End-of-Life Care The Building Bridges workshop is a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals to explore your own cultural biases and apply what you’ve learned toward your work with seriously-ill patients.... In this highly interactive workshop, learn about the culture of healthcare while you: Investigate your own cultural biases and behaviors Explore the role culture and ethnicity play at end of life Role play how to have culturally sensitive discussions about palliative medicine and end-of-life care with patients and their families November 3, 2014 Building Briges: Cultural Diversity and End-of-Life Care 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST Sierra Health Foundation 1321 Garden Highway Sacramento, CA contact cccc.org for more info! See more

The following individuals from the New InnovAge PACE program in San Bernardino will be speaking at our next General Membership Meeting on September 17th, at 6:00p.m. The Medical Director (Board certified in Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine) and the Regional Executive Director will both be speaking! Please invite your colleagues or anyone interested in attending! This would be a great way for them to experience the coalition and also find out about what is happening in the... community! 1st time attendees are FREE, please just RSVP to Nanette Bernstein at: [email protected] Maria Zamora-Hughes MBA Regional Executive Director Irene San Roman, MD, CMD - Medical Director Kalondrea Davis MSW Center Director Carrie Fitzpatrick MSW Social Worker Brandy Madrigal-Flynn Business Development Beatriz Ralda Business Development Amber Sheikh Ginsberg Senior Associate Sandy Rodgers VP of Sales Angie Karr-Nystrom Community Liaison See more

Coalition Members... Don't forget to attend the Inland Empire Palliative Care Coalition General Membership Meeting: September 17th at St. Bernardine's Rezek Center, 2101 N. Waterman Ave, San Bernardino. Dinner will be served at 6:00p.m. The medical director and executive director of the new InnovAge PACE program of San Bernardino will be presenting. Don't miss this informative meeting! Please RSVP to [email protected]! See you there!

POLST Refresher Training for 'Train-the-Trainers' One-Day POLST Refresher Course The One-Day POLST Refresher Course, POLST: Re-energizing the Conversation, is more than just a review of the changes to the POLST form. The program provides an important refresher on POLST and essential skills for facilitating meaningful conversations with patients and their families about POLST and goals of care. The program is available only to people who have attended the POLST two-day tra...in-the-trainer course. Registration includes a flash drive containing the complete revised manual with the 2014 curriculum updates. Dates/Locations: - Southern California Alzheimer’s Association, Orange County Chapter in Irvine September 18, 2014, 8:30am - 4:30pm 2515 McCabe Way Irvine, CA 92614