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Community based palliative care, opportunities and challenges

2nd International Conference on Palliative Care
September 23-24, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic

Eric G Bush

Hospice of the Chesapeake, USA

Keynote : J Prim Care Gen Pract

Abstract:

Community based palliative care has been instrumental in providing patients and families high quality patient centered care. The opportunity to grow these patient centered services is enticing. While this can provide great improvement in quality of life and decrease hospital admissions, there are concomitant challenges in growing this service line. These challenges include but are not limited to areas such as: personnel, regulatory and financing. This presentation will explore this topic from all aspects with the goal of stimulating thought in optimizing what, when and how to provide high quality patient centered care to patients in the community. What is the best way to provide this care given the current resources? Are we optimizing utilization of the current infrastructure in place? How do we best provide quality of life focused care given changing global demographics and population growth?.

Biography:

Eric G Bush is board certified in internal medicine, addiction medicine and hospice & palliative medicine, practicing for 15 years. He graduated from State University of New York at Buffalo in 2004, with an MD. Prior education: BS Pharmacy 1994 and MBA 1996 from Buffalo; starting as a medic (& later LPN) in the US Army Reserve in 1988. Post-residency Fellowship at National Institutes of Health. Prior medical director for Frederick Memorial Hospital Pain and Supportive Care Services & Hospice of Frederick County (obtaining Joint Commission Certification for Inpatient Palliative Care Service), received US national recognition in 2015 with Circle of Life Citation of Honor for Excellence in Hospice and Palliative Care. Currently he is an academic editor and palliative care section chief for the online journal medicine. Since 2016, he has been chief medical officer for Hospice of the Chesapeake & Chesapeake Palliative Medicine. He is the CEO for Hospiceandpalliativeboardreview.com.

E-mail: egbush@yahoo.com

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