March 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Topic
Thinking the Unthinkable: Advance Care Planning

Presenter:
Dr. Heinrich is the Medical Director of HealthPartners Hospice of the Lakes. For 8 years he was the Psychiatric Medical Director of a 10 bed geriatric inpatient unit at the Regina Medical Center in Hastings, Minnesota. He currently provides geriatric psychiatry consultation to residents in long term care settings in over 80 nursing homes in the 7 metro county area. He specializes in end of life care and last year completed a masters’ degree in bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. One of his current interests is to develop a system wide advance care planning program that allows all of HealthPartners’ patients and members to have the opportunity to document and update their advance directives in order to respect their autonomy, wishes, and ability to control medical decision-making at all stages of their lives.

Agenda:

2:30 pm Registration/Networking
2:45 pm Business Meeting
3:00 pm Presentation/Questions
4:00 pm Adjourn

Objectives:

1. Understand the Minnesota requirements for a legally recognized healthcare directive
2. Cover the benefits and limits of advance care directives
3. Use the Goals of Care concept to think about advance care planning

Call Christine Maxwell, SPSWA Program Chair at 612-812-8915, with questions related to this program.

Location:

The Commons on Marice
1380 Marice Drive
Eagan, MN 55121
651-688-9999

Click here for an online map

Certificates of Attendance (CEU) will be available.
www.seniorworkers.org

This program will be repeated for MASWA on Thursday – March 25th