Advance Care Planning in the Age of COVID

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Lessons Learned and Policy Implications

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Event Description

Advance Care Planning (ACP) has never been more important than now. Our recent experience with COVID-19 lays bare ACP gaps and barriers that persist despite many years of promotion of ACP through public and clinical education.

Federal and state regulators have implemented ACP waivers to address some of these concerns, but these waivers are temporary. We will evaluate these temporary waivers and determine where there are remaining gaps and barriers. Please join (virtually) our panel of leading experts as we examine lessons learned from this experience and identify longer-term policy solutions that support quality ACP services for all.

Panelists

  • Stephanie Anderson, DNP, RN, Executive Director, Respecting Choices
  • Marilyn J.D. Barnes, MS, MA, MPH, BCC, VP, Mission and Spiritual Care, AdvocateAuroraHealth
  • Marian Grant, DNP, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, RN, Senior Regulatory Advisor, The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care; Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Schools of Nursing
  • Sarah Hooper, J.D., Executive Director, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law
  • Moderator: Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, Founder, End Well Foundation, Physician and Teaching Faculty Member, Sutter Health

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Relevant Resources

  • Respecting Choices COVID-19 Care Planning Resources: Respecting Choices is proud to be among the many organizations that worked rapidly to meet the needs of clinicians and communities facing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. We created a Care Planning tool kit of complementary materials, for widespread use through the end of the year, that is grounded in our 25-year history of experience and research but is specific to the unique circumstances that COVID-19 created for patients, families and the healthcare team.

This event is part of the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy, a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a non-partisan, non-profit alliance of over 150 national organizations dedicated to being a catalyst to change the health delivery system, empower consumers, enhance provider capacity, and improve public and private policies in advanced illness care.