Past Events Archive

The Community-wide End-of-life/Palliative Care Initiative and its community partners have presented a number of events in order to improve functional health literacy.

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Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care (EPEC)
Through the support of a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Medical Association developed the Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care (EPEC) curriculum.  The goal of the EPEC project is to close the educational gap and improve competency and confidence of healthcare professionals in caring for the dying.
Advance Care Planning
Community Conversations on Compassionate Care (CCCC)
Advance Care Planning Workshop designed as a facilitated group discussion and presentation led by trained lay and health professional staff.  The goal of these Community Conversations is to promote conversations that help ensure that wishes are honored.

Community Conversations on Compassionate Care Facilitator Training
CCCC Facilitator Training is an 8 hour training on Advance Care Planning. The training provides attendees with the tools needed to facilitate the CCCC workshop and trains attendees who deal with advance care planning on a daily basis with knowledge needed to facilitate 1-on-1 discussions.  The goal is to develop healthcare and community collaborations to promote advance care planning and the completion of advance care directives for all individuals.

2008
  • Ethics Grand Rounds at Twig Auditorium, Rochester General Hospital
  • Hospice of Buffalo, Cheektowaga, NY
  • Erie County Community-wide Implementation Task Force, Buffalo, NY
  • MOLST Quality Forums review Preliminary Data.
    Onondaga County:  Update on MOLST Facility Implementation & QI
                                        >read more                                   
    Monroe County:        Update on MOLST Facility Implementation & QI
                                        >read more                                    
  • Advance Care Planning: "What are Your Choices" >read more
  • World Elder Abuse Awareness Day >read more
  • "How to get the Last Word in"! >Press Release  >Flyer  >Web Link

  2007

  • Pastoral Care Training Program at Roswell -
    CCCC - Where Does the MOLST Fit?
  • Excellus Health Plan Wellness to End-of-life Staff and Bilingual Employees, Rochester, NY
2006
  • Southern Tier, Corning, NY
  • Catholic Family Center, Rochester, NY
  • Lifespan, Rochester, NY
  • Bassett-Cooperstown, NY
2005
  • Faxton – St. Luke’s Hospital, Utica, NY
  • Spiritual Community, Rochester, NY
  • Aging Community, Rochester, NY
2004
  • Southern Tier End of-life Coalition, Binghamton, NY
  • CHI ETA CHI Sorority, Rochester, NY
  • Roswell Park Buffalo, NY
  • Community Health Foundation Sharing Your Wishes Coalition Leadership
2003
  • Univera Healthcare and Lifetime Health Medical Group, Buffalo, NY
2002
  • Community-wide End of-life/Palliative Care Initiative Volunteers, Rochester, NY

Elder Abuse

  • Retired Physicians Group of the Rochester Academy of Medicine
    - 11/13/07

Palliative Care

Pediatrics

  • The End-of-Life Education Consortium (ELNEC)
    - 2007> read more

Senior Issues

  • New York State Society on Aging
    - 10/17/07
Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)
MOLST is a program designed to improve the quality of care seriously ill patients with advanced chronic illness receive at the end of life. MOLST is based on antecedent goal-based, patient-centered conversation among patients, families and providers. Medical orders are recorded on a bright pink form that travels with the patient and is honored at all sites of care.   

MOLST Conference: Honoring Patient Preferences: The Role of MOLST

  • Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Keynote Speaker - MOLST
    at 462 Gridder Street, Buffalo, NY >read more
  • Mercy Medical Center - Speaking on MOLST located at,
    Traves Lecture Center, 100 North Village Avenue,
    Rockville Center, NY at 6:00 p.m. - 12/03/07
  • Jewish Home & Hospital 6th Annual Palliative Care Conference - 11/15/07
  • St. Mary's Hospital, Albany NY - 10/26/07
  • New York State for Long Term Care Ombudsmen Program - 10/18/07
  • The Nurse Practitioner Association New York State's
    (The NPA) 23rd Annual Convention - 10/05/07
  • Allegheny County Sharing Your Wishes & Jones Memorial Hospital
    Presents MOLST - 6/26/07
MOLST Medical Legal Conference: Improving Communication and Decision-Making for Seriously Ill Patients Guidelines for Attorneys, Physicians and Health Care Professionals
  • Rochester, NY, September 2006
  • Syracuse, NY, November 2006
Community Principles of Pain Management

Enhancing Pain Management to Achieve Functionality: A Provider Symposium Lead by National Pain Experts
  • Rochester, NY, November 2003
  • Buffalo, May 2004
Enhancing the Management of Acute and Chronic Pain in LTC Facilities: A Train the Trainers Program Developed by Regional LTC Experts
  • Rochester, May 2003
  • Syracuse, October 2004
Symposium on Unwarranted Variation in Medical Care in the Greater Rochester Area - Moving Toward Rational Healthcare Spending

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