NASEM Webinar Recording: Innovative Hospital-Based Palliative Care Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a webinar June 5, “Innovative Hospital-Based Palliative Care Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Program Leaders of Two Large Hospitals.”
Palliative care is team-based specialty care that provides an additional layer of support for people facing serious illness through communication and symptom management expertise. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, palliative care clinicians were in short supply, and in hard-hit metropolitan areas such as New York City and Boston, the need for palliative care expertise has greatly exceeded the available palliative care workforce.
The webinar featured key principles and lessons learned from two specific innovative and rapid hospital-based responses to addressing palliative care needs during the pandemic implemented by the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in New York, and by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Speakers included:
- James Tulsky, MD, Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Elizabeth M. Rickerson, MD, Anesthesia and Pain Management, Palliative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Barbara Reville, DNP, ANP-BC, ACHPN, Nurse Director, Adult Palliative Care , Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care , Fellowship Director, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
- Jane deLima Thomas, MD, Director, Inpatient Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, Associate Director, Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Emily Chai, MD, Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- R. Sean Morrison, MD, Ellen and Howard C. Katz Professor and Chair for the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Director, Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute , Director, National Palliative Care Research Center
- Moderator: Amy Berman, RN, LHD, FAAN, Senior Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation
To watch the webinar recording and access the webinar materials, click here.
