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UPCOMING EVENTS

POLST: It Starts with a Conversation

Learn about POLST in this two-day train-the-trainer course using the new California POLST Training curriculum. February 24-25, 2010, Sacramento, CA

Our Programs
POLST - Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment is a form that specifies the types of medical treatment that a seriously ill patient wishes to receive. Take a moment and (Click Here) to learn much more.

2010 National Bereavement Teleconference
Living with Grief: Cancer and End-of Life Care

Register online now or by fax/mail.

Hospice Foundation of America is pleased to announce that our 17th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief: Cancer and End-of-Life Care, will be broadcast live-via-webcast and satellite on Wednesday, March 24, 2010.

The 2010 teleconference will address care options related to cancer diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families and professional caregivers. The teleconference will also examine psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management, and ethical issues related to the disease.

Cancer and End-of-Life Care featured panelists:

• Yvette Colón, PhD, MSW, Director of Education & Support at American Pain Foundation
• Malene Davis, MBA, CHPN, President & CEO at Capital Hospice
• Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv, Professor of Gerontology at The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to HFA
• Richard Payne, MD, Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
• Sherry R Schachter, PhD, FT, Director Bereavement Services at Calvary Hospital/Hospice
• Brad Stuart, MD, Medical Director at Sutter VNA & Hospice

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