Western North Carolina residents who wish to learn more about compassionate care during serious illness are invited to attend an event co-hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life and Pardee Hospital. The free Lunch and Learn, “Introduction to Palliative Care 101,” will be noon Tuesday, September 30, at the Pardee Signature Care Clinic in Blue Ridge Mall.
Those attending will learn how palliative care team members work alongside the individual’s physicians to assist in the management of serious, life-limiting illness. The supportive medical specialty focuses on quality of life regardless of prognosis.
On Sept. 1, Four Seasons Compassion for Life was formally
awarded more than $9.5 million to implement national health care reform through
its innovative community palliative care model from the Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Innovation, a program of the federal Department of Health and Human
Services.
Lunch and Learn
presenters Harvey Nix, a physician assistant, and Rikki Hooper, a nurse
practitioner holding advanced certification in hospice and palliative nursing,
both with Four Seasons Compassion for Life, and Andrea Little Grey, a
registered nurse with Pardee Hospital, will host the highly accessible
presentation and discussion.
“Quality of life, including reduction of symptoms and
pain, can be a reality at any point in a disease process,” says Hooper.
“Palliative care puts the focus on the individual, not the disease.”
Advance planning and communicating wishes to loved ones
can ensure the experience we want when the time comes, not the experience we do
not want, she says.“Knowing what is available to you and having the
information at hand whether you choose to act on it or not provides a valuable
foundation for the time when you are faced with those challenges,” she says.
Individuals who attend will acquire the ability to better
participate in their health care; develop an appreciation for the ways
palliative care positively impacts health care delivery; learn about patient
and family satisfaction with care received; and understand what the health care
system can provide which is consistent with their goals.
“Palliative care
addresses and supports patient and family needs with positive impacts on care
goals,” says Nix. “Our presentation and discussion will clarify this
compassionate form of medicine for those without a medical background.”
The western North Carolina branch of Four Seasons
Compassion for Life and Pardee Hospital co-host the free Lunch and Learn event,
"Introduction to Palliative Care 101," noon Tuesday, Sept. 30, at
Pardee Signature Health Clinic in the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd.,
Hendersonville.
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