End of Life Conversations: How ready is your organization? How ready are you?
Learning Objectives
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Discuss the critical need to improve the health care delivery system's ability to know and honor patients' choices during a serious or
life threatening illness.
- Describe the goals and deliverables of Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest, a statewide initiative of WSHA and WSMA
- Review the key elements of the Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest website to share with your patients
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Outline the five principles of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Conversation Ready work, and describe how organizations around
the country are accomplishing the goals
Presenters
Kate Lally, MD
VNA of Care New England
Kelly McCutcheon Agams, LICSW
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Joanne Roberts, MD
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
Donna Smith, MD
Virginia Mason
Lauge Sokol-Hessner, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(Originally recorded November 19, 2014)