Advance Care Planning Training to Integrate Palliative Care ACP into Your Practice

Integrating Advance Care Planning into Your Medical Practice

Advance care planning conversations help patients consider and document the treatment choices they would make if they could no longer speak for themselves. Such conversations should be a routine part of healthcare, but guiding patients through them takes skill, intention and a framework of support.

That’s what you’ll find in Integrating Advance Care Planning into Your Medical Practice, an interactive and convenient online course that lays out the benefits and potential blueprints for making advance care planning an integral and effective part of any practice.

This curriculum shows you how to evaluate your current advance care planning efforts; how to develop a framework for integrating advance care planning; how to understand all documentation and billing requirements; how to educate your staff in advance care planning; and how to fully implement an advance care planning program.

The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California in partnership with The California State University Institute for Palliative Care created Building Engagement with Advance Care Planning to promulgate strategies, methods, and tools to engage the public and healthcare organizations effectively in advance care planning.

Click HERE to get the Brochure and join the interest list!

This course is ideal for:

• Group practices and independent physician associations
• Individual clinicians, including physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners
• Payers and integrated health systems seeking to initiative large-scale implementation of advance care planning within their network

Learning Objectives

In this course, students will learn:

• The process of integrating advance care planning into a medical practice
• The documentation requirements needed to bill for advance care planning under Medicare
• How to develop an education plan specific to both clinical and office staff
• How to execute a plan to make advance care planning a routine part of workflow

Fast Facts

Begins:	Online courses are available immediately upon registration
Is taught:	Completely online, available 24/7
Offers:	2 Continuing Education Hours
Costs:	$199
Requires:	Computing skills sufficient to complete graduate work, access to a computer with an Internet connection.
Detailed FAQ:	Click HERE.
Cancellation Policy:	There are no refunds on our self-paced courses

 

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Faculty

Judy Thomas, JD, is the CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC), and an attorney who has worked in healthcare for more than 20 years.

Before working with the CCCC, Judy was a lobbyist for LeadingAge of California and the California Hospital Association, where she focused on aging and long-term supports and services. She was formerly a partner in the Sacramento-based law firm of Hunter, Richey, Di Benedetto & Brewer, where she specialized in healthcare law. And before law school, Judy was a computer programmer for the nation’s first preferred provider organization.

Judy is the Chair of the National POLST Paradigm Task Force and Past President of the California Culture Change Coalition.

Lael C. Duncan, MD, is a licensed California physician with more than 15 years of clinical practice in internal medicine, infectious disease, and long term acute care for patients with multi-system disease. Before joining the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) in 2014 as Medical Director of Consulting Services, Lael served the organization for four years as a passionate volunteer.

After graduating with honors from the University of Washington Medical School in 1991, Lael did her residency training at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Lael has practice experience with inpatient and outpatient care, hospital epidemiology and infection control, long term care, and rehabilitation following critical illness.

Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, ACSW, OSW-C, is the Clinical Director of Consulting Services with the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, a Research Consultant for the Psychosocial Oncology Specialization Program at the University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work, and the founder of Collaborative Caring.

Shirley’s education, research and consultation efforts focus on quality-of-life, palliative care, leadership development and the creation of meaningful organizational change. Her work is dedicated to enhancing excellence in the delivery of culturally-congruent, person-centered and family-focused inter-professional care through the implementation of effective learning principles.

She has been the principal investigator on studies with over $3.3 million in external funding, including the ACE Project and ExCEL in Social Work. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and disseminated through more than 100 publications and 400 professional presentations.

Shirley serves on several editorial board, including the Journal of Palliative Medicine, and professional boards, including the National Association of Social Work. She is a Distinguished Social Work Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice, and is co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work.

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