Palliative Care Program News Today

Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group ...

President scott. Here. Vice president lim. Here. Supervisor farrell. Here. Commissioner ferrigno. Here. Commissioner follansbee here. Commissioner sass here. We now have a quorum. We will now take item number one. Item number one is the approval of theminutes of the regular meeting of august 11, 2016. Are there any Public Comment . All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. The minutes are adopted [gavel] item 2. Item 2 is gen. Public comment on items that are not on todays agenda. Are there any...

Robust managed care environment, the consultant engagement helped us identify a few key foundational infrastructure elements that we must have in place in order to be successful. And you see those listed here. The first we just talked about, which is having an Enterprise Electronic Health record. The second is organizational intelligence, which is a proprietary software, which is a Cost Accounting system that allows us to cost out services particularly at our acute Care Trauma Center that we wil...

Edward a chow, Cecilia Chung Judith Karshmer david pating and all those in favor say aye; all those opposed say no. I have one addition. That would be under the gift report and after the comment on the action taken if you would note that if i had said to the chair that we would be sending these notes to these organization it would then record that we actually normally would be doing that. If that is okay. In addition, i see that we have approved the minutes with the addition and just to be sure ...

Communities as many different types both cultures and ethnicities to actually guide us so one of the things were working on through the longterm coordinating council is really thinking what it means to do a Needs Assessment in the community and the particular concerns in the community that are culturally relevant so were thoughtful and sensitive communicator on what Palliative Care can offer and [inaudible] is put forward as one of the poster children for having the conversation out there for pe...

Exciting things to me in doing the work in San Francisco is really learn from all of the communities as many different types both cultures and ethnicities to actually guide us so one of the things were working on through the longterm coordinating council is really thinking what it means to do a Needs Assessment in the community and the particular concerns in the community that are culturally relevant so were thoughtful and sensitive communicator on what Palliative Care can offer and [inaudible] ...

Of transition occurred of the Task Force Recommendations under the longterm coordinating council and the longterm coordinating council happily voted to create a Palliative Care work group and committee and now moving the recommendations forward and already we have met i think at least three times, had three meetings. The committee again looking carefully at those recommendations trying to figure out which ones we should be addressing most aggressively for the short of run but trying to Pay Atten...

Is making sure that the providers are educated and having the competencies to provide and offer good Palliative Care services and those services are across the continuum and not limited to hos hospice alone but wherever theyre experiencing the service and around the state legislation that is encouraging providers to be more explicit when someone has a terminal illness and know what their Treatment Options are including Palliative Care. That has become particularly relevant around the issue of de...

Will hand it over to you and have you walk the commission and the audience through the process and the recommendations. Thank you. [inaudible] i cannot hear you. Is it on . Can you hear me now . Yes thank you. Thank you to president james and to the commission for giving us this opportunity to tell you a little bit about the proceedings of the task force. It was really an amazing and productive time that we had together and as you heard from anne this was a program or issue that was cosponsored ...

Communities as many different types both cultures and ethnicities to actually guide us so one of the things were working on through the longterm coordinating council is really thinking what it means to do a Needs Assessment in the community and the particular concerns in the community that are culturally relevant so were thoughtful and sensitive communicator on what Palliative Care can offer and [inaudible] is put forward as one of the poster children for having the conversation out there for pe...