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Hospice Medical Directors Track | Monday, April 29, 2019
Back by popular demand, we are pleased to present the hospice medical directors’ track featuring an entire day of
sessions focused on physicians and their hospice practice.

A3 - Palliative Medication Management Ellen Fulp, PharmD, MSPC, BCGP, AvaCare
10:30am-12:00pm
This session will provide an overview of medication appropriateness and how to apply the concept to your seriously ill patients and
their medication lists. Examples of how to continually evaluate medication lists, including frequently used palliative medications,
over time will be provided. We will review maintenance medications, nonessential medications, and formulary medication
selection. Additionally, this session will discuss regulatory concerns surrounding medication use after hospice election and how to
maximize your resources to ensure patient comfort and hospice compliance.

B2 - Relatedness Determinations in Hospice Michael Lalor, MD, MBA, Trellis Supportive Care Services
1:45pm-3:15pm
This lecture will review strategies and considerations in determining conditions “related to the terminal prognosis” of a hospice
patient, how to use these determinations for medication coverage decisions, and will outline documentation strategies for the

C4 - Universal Safe Medication Precautions: An Approach to Medication Safety in Hospice in the Midst of an
Opioid Epidemic Deb Norcross, RN, CHPN and Laura Patel, MD, Transitions LifeCare
3:30pm-4:30pm
As the opioid epidemic challenges more and more of our communities, hospices are faced with the question, “What are you doing
to be part of the solution?” Transitions LifeCare developed a multifaceted approach over 2 years to provide standardized education,
risk assessment and actionable measures to promote safe medication use for our patients and families. In this presentation, we will
describe the journey we have been on using a Performance Improvement framework to develop these materials and protocols.

Hospice Medical Directors’ Roundtable Facilitated by Michael Lalor, MD, MBA and Cindy Morgan RN, MSN, CHC, CHPN
4:45pm-5:45pm
This session will be a roundtable discussion of topics confronting hospice medical directors and physicians such as: The role and
use Physician Assistants in hospice, the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, targeted probe and educate, alternative payment
models and other topics physicians may find beneficial to their hospice practice.

Hospice & Palliative Care Sessions
Hospice agencies responded to our education needs assessment in favor of sessions on documentation,
regulations, quality measure and reporting, case management, and medications at end-of-life.
Here are the sessions we’ve planned for you.

P2 - Plenary Session for Hospice:
Hospice Regulatory & Quality Reporting Update
Tuesday, April 30 | 8:45am-10:15am
Jennifer Kennedy, Senior Director of Regulatory and Quality
National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

Jennifer is the Senior Director of Regulatory and Quality for the National Hospice & Palliative
Care Organization and has been with the organization since 2006. She has more than 30
years of experience as a leader and nurse in diverse healthcare settings and has worked in
hospice and palliative care for the last 18+ years. She has a Bachelor’s degree in nursing, a
dual master’s degree in health education and case management, and completed her doctoral
degree in health care education and policy in March 2018. Jennifer is a certified healthcare
compliance professional and legal nurse consultant. She serves as faculty at national and
state conferences, writes articles for trade journals, contributes to health care publisher
materials, develops education and resources for hospice and palliative care providers, and
served on the ANA’s national palliative nursing task group in 2017.

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