Attendees were asked:

What did you hear over the last day and a half that you need to implement at your program to ensure that you are providing world-changing quantity?

Below are the responses from Division 3:

• Partnering Palliative Care
• Strategic focus for Nursing Home Facilities
• Physician/Colleague Burn out
• Symptom management – All
• EMR – need physician input
• Physician narrative = research
• Do we need EMR?
  • Data collection; dictation; time to completed primary and secondary PX hear
  • Build perfect narrative
  • Access via cell phone, RX, etc.
• Acknowledge care giver at hospice access
• Comfort/support nurse and colleagues
• Pay for Athem (?)
• Align with hospitals and corporations in the market
• Training/teaching staff to reduce turnover
• Palliative care in community
• Access to fax machine (e-fax does not work)
  • Need solution (efax in coporate)
  • Adobe Acrobat – $15/month
• More Palliative Medicine
  • Easier in managed care environment
• Spiritual foundation broken. Raise its costs
• Are you getting enough info?
• Standardize education via webinar to use with team
• Physician tool box
• Turnover due to travel (staff)
• Use of medical marijuana info
• Underappreciation of spiritual and social support
• Are we really different?
  • Unique services lines to survive
  • Video services line
  • Online testimonial
• Consolidation in future
• Memorabilia catalog
• Condensed air –portable technology
• Create memories through visits, touch
• Patients resistant to code status discussions
  • Objective visual of reality of full code
• Right to die – how will Compassus address?
• Physician Newsletters