On Thursday, December 10, 2009, SWHPN co-sponsored an audio conference hosted by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) entitled The Hospital Palliative Care Team and the Social Worker from 1:30-2:30 pm EST with 872 participants.
SWHPN Co-Chairs Grace Christ and Gary Stein introduced the featured speakers:
- Amy Bauer, LISW, LISWS
Medical Senior Social Worker, Palliative Medicine Unit, Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Health Systems - Bill Mejia, LCSW
Palliative Care Social Worker, Palliative Care Consult Service, Huntington Hospital
The audio conference demonstrated how palliative care programs benefit with a social worker on the team and described the financial logistics of supporting the position. Bill Mejia gave profound examples of the multifaceted ways social workers contribute to the quality of palliative and end-of-life care hospitals can provide to patients and their families. Amy Bauer highlighted the central role of social workers in psychosocial education for interdisciplinary team members. Both speakers highlighted family conferencing as a core palliative care intervention that is primarily facilitated by social workers. They described programs rich in training of other disciplines with confident assertion of their expertise and leadership skills.
Read the full description of the conference and buy the CDs from CAPC.
Comments on this entry are closed.