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featuring
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, Founder, Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor, Center to Advance Palliative Care

Join us to learn the similarities and differences between hospice and palliative care; identify patients appropriate for each service; recognize the outcomes of palliative care for patients, families, clinicians, and health systems; and identify the essential characteristics of high-quality palliative care services to assure the highest quality of care.

There is no cost to register. This program is funded by the Charles L. Deardorff, MD Medical Education Endowment Fund. To register, Click Here.

Speaker Information
Dr. Diane E. Meier, FACP, FAAHPM, is immediate past CEO of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC.org), a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality palliative care for people living with a serious illness and their families in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is co-director of the Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center; Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; Professor of Medicine; Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; and was the founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, 1997–2011, all at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Dr. Meier was named one of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the U.S. by HealthLeaders Media 2010 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. She received the Gustav O. Lienhard Award of the National Academy of Medicine and the AHA-HRET TRUST Award, both in 2017, as well as a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2008. Dr. Meier served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington DC in 2009-2010, working both on the Senate’s HELP Committee and at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Meier has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in the medical literature. Her most recent book, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Reform, was published in 2014.

Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Pennsylvania Medical Society through the joint providership of the Lancaster General Hospital and Hospice & Community Care. The Lancaster General Hospital is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Conflict of Interest Statement
Faculty and all others who have the ability to control content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by Lancaster General Hospital are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

Credit Designation
The Lancaster General Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Lancaster General Hospital designates this live activity for 1 Hour(s) of Attendance w/ No Credit.

Contact Hours
1.0 nursing contact hour is available upon completion of this activity through Hospice & Community Care. Hospice & Community Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

CEUs
This activity is pending approval for 1.0 SW, LPC and M&FT CEUs by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists & Professional Counselors. Full attendance is required. No partial credit is available.

Event Disclosures
Speakers
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM has no relevant financial relationship(s) within the past 24 months with any ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

Planners and other Administrative Support
Stephanie Carzola, BSN, RN, CHPN, Gail Smith, BA, and Ashley Nemith, BSN, RN, CHPN have no relevant financial relationship(s) within the past 24 months with any ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

Commercial Support
This activity is not commercially supported.

Criteria for Successful Completion
To successfully complete this activity, all learners must attend the activity in its entirety and complete the required evaluation by no later than Wednesday, October 4, 2023. Thereafter, the evaluation will no longer be available and credits/contact hours will not be issued. No credits/contact hours will be issued for failure to complete the required evaluation by the stated deadline. A link to the evaluation will be sent at the conclusion of the activity. If you do not receive an evaluation email or you cannot meet the stated evaluation deadline, contact Gail Smith at gsmith@hospicecommunity.org.