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Palliative Care Team

Dr. Tolle is a practicing internist and Professor of Medicine at OHSU. She founded and directs the OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care and holds the Cornelia Hayes Stevens Chair in Health Care Ethics.

Chair

Dr. Fromme is a practicing internist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics at OHSU.

Co-Chair

Director, Interprofessional Fellowship Program in Palliative Care and Geriatric Fellowship Program, Portland V.A. Medical Center. She is also a Senior Scholar with the Center for Ethics in Health Care.

Planning Team

OHSU Ombudsman/Patient Advocate; Director, Dept. of Patient Relations & Hospital Chaplaincy; Assoc. Director Center for Ethics in Health Care at OHSU.

Dr. Gordon is a practicing internist, Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at OHSU, and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at OHSU.

Mary Denise is a Nurse Coordinator, Palliative Medicine and Comfort Care Team, and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at OHSU.

Conference
Coordinator

Phone: (503) 494-4436
Fax: (503) 494-1260
jeppesem@ohsu.edu

 

 

Palliative Care Conferences

Oregon Hospitals Collaborating in Comfort Care
Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health & Science University

Principal Investigators:
Susan Tolle, MD, and Erik Fromme, MD

Conference Coordinator:
Margaret Jeppesen
Phone: (503) 494-4436
Fax: (503) 494-1260
jeppesem@ohsu.edu

Upcoming Conference:

June 13, 2008, Portland, OR

Compassion, Suffering: The Art and Science of Caring

Sponsorship:

The Kinsman Foundation has generously awarded grant funding to the Center for Ethics in Health Care at OHSU in order to strengthen existing collaboration between hospitals in an effort to advance palliative care in Oregon. This four-year outreach grant supports the development of educational conferences for hospital health care providers in order to provide education and support collaboration in palliative care across Oregon.

Goals of the Grant:

1. Provide educational seminars to strengthen and advance palliative care practices in Oregon health care settings.

2. Build bridges between hospitals and other health care service providers to improve care for patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses.

3. Develop comfort care programs for hospitals that

1. ready to create a comfort care program;
2. considering such a program but are not yet ready to implement; or
3. want a program but are not ready to implement.

4. Reduce suffering of those with serious and chronic illness, and particularly patients who receive care in more than one setting at the end of their lives.

Conferences are conducted in five Oregon regions, identified as "catchment areas" by The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 1999, which divides the nation into regions based on hospital referral pattern and utilization.