May and June 2005
The next Mid-South Hospizarbeit und Bioethik Coalition community meeting will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M. on Thursday, June 2, at the Church Health Center's Hope and Healing Facility, located at 1115 Union Avenue. Jane Owen, MSN, APRN, BC, CHPN, CCRN, a palliative care coordinator for Baptist Memorial Healthcare and board member of the MCCC and TELP, will speak about factors people need to consider when doing advance care planning. Jane, who is a dynamic speaker, will draw on her many years of experience as a critical care and palliative care nurse. This presentation will count towards the preparation that is required for individuals wishing to serve on the Mid-South Hospizarbeit und Bioethik Coalition's Speakers Bureau.
The Hope and Healing Center is located in back of Ut Family Practice, which faces Union. You can turn into UT Family Practice from Union and drive around to the back parking lot; or you can enter at the back from Eastmoreland. As always, food will be served. If you plan to bring something to contribute, please e-mail Emily at [email protected] to let her know what you will be bringing. This is an important request, as it allows us to know what we will need to get to augment what meeting attendees plan to bring.
Also, please remember that on June 9 and 10 the Healing Center, located at 3885 Tchulahoma Road, will present the 2nd Suicide and the Black Church Conference: The Silent Storm. For information and registration, call 370-4673. A flyer for the conference will be sent by separate e-mail. Presenters include:
Virginia Trotter-Betts, MSN, JD, RN, FAAN Commissioner,
Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Donna Holland-Barnes, Ph.D., Founder and President
National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide (NOPCAS)
Sherry Molock, Ph.D., Associate Professor Psychology
George Washington University
Scott Ridgway, M.S., Executive Director
State of Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network
Dr. Carolyn Bryant, Counseling Center Director
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church
Dr. Warren Harper, Psychologist
Edward P. Wimberly, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Academic Dean,
Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, ITC
Janis F. Kearney, Lecturer, Author, A Survivor of Suicide and "Cotton Field of Dreams" and the first presidential diarist in U.S. history chronicling President Bill Clinton
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Minutes of the May MCCC Community Meeting
Program: Our May guest speaker was Erskine Gillespie of the Mid-South Transplant Foundation. Mr. Gillespie told his personal story as a young man in liver failure who was told he would soon die without a liver transplant. He went home not considering a transplant for himself. When the call came for him to return to the hospital for the surgey, his sister was his motivation to go through with the procedure.
Mr. Gillespie showed a video which described the impact transplants can have on a community. He also provided and went over the contents of a folder, The Gift of Life: Pass It On, which provides information on the services of the Mid-South Transplant Foundation. In addition, he explained that many states allow families to deny organ donation, even if the patient has signed an organ donation form. Mr. Gillespie spoke about "First Person Consent" laws, which are laws that some states have to give the donor's wishes paramount authority, bypassing the need for organ procurement organizations to seek additional consent from the family.
Communications Committee Report: Paul reported on the activities of the committee. Diana is designing stationery and thank-you notes. Pens, donated by Crossroads Hospice and bearing the number for the coalition cell phone that was donated by Odyssey Hospice (833-5631), will be in next week. Wendy played our newly made public service announcements (PSAs) for the group. A copy of one of the scripts, directions on how to get a PSA to air, and a list of radio stations was reviewed, with several stations being added to the list. Sample CDs with name label and logo were available. The group unanimously voted for the label with a white background. Wendy volunteered to create and apply the labels for the CDs.
Speakers Bureau Report: Jane gave a report on the last Speakers Bureau meeting, which was held to review evaluation and reporting tools. Discussion of her June community meeting presentation centered around what she will be able to cover, given the time that will be available. It was decided that this presentation will count for credit toward certification for those who wish to serve on the MCCC Speakers Bureau. However, the training for those who have not attended other Speakers Bureau meetings cannot be considered as complete due to the limited timeframe of the June meeting.
Many of our Speakers Bureau members are Respecting Choices (RC) trainers. The Bioethics Center completed an RC training at the Desoto Center in April, with 33 trained. A second training was to be held at Rhodes in May, though enrollment was more limited. For future RC trainings they will be looking at scheduling trainings at the various health care institutions so that costs can be kept down and more staff members can attend.
Jane recommend the American Hospital Association's advance care planning webpage, which can be accessed at www.putitinwritning.org
The Tennessee End-of-Life-Partnership (TELP) statewide seminar will be held on November 2, 2005, in Nashville. Larry Churchill will probably be the keynote speaker, and the Bioethics Center and MCCC might be asked to present.
Faith Group Report: Mike Davis reported that on Thursday, May 26, Dr. Christopher Church, PhD, Professor of philosophy and religion at Baptist College of Health Sciences, will speak on the tenets of various world religions, particularly as they relate to end-of-life care. Dr. Church's presentation will be from 7:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. at the Church of the Holy Communion on Walnut Grove.
Nursing Home Initiative: On May 18, Mary Ann Capocaccia, Christopher Church, and Emily Fox-Hill will be making a presentation to the local chapter of the Tennessee Health Care about the nursing home initiative that is being jointly undertaken by the Mid-South Biomedical Ethics Center and the Mid-South Hospizarbeit und Bioethik Coalition. The MBEC will be providing the nursing homes with an ethics educational session, to be held at Baptist College of Health Sciences, and will be offering assistance in setting up ethics committees for nursing homes. As part of its Durham Foundation grant, the MCCC will be offering programming for nursing home staff members, family councils, and resident councils on advance care planning and other end-of-life issues.
Caring Connections Report: Wendy Santee reported on the Caring Connections pre-conference session that she and Emily Fox-Hill attended in Atlanta in April, thanks to the support of Methodist Hospice and Crossroads Hospice. Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The goal of Caring Connections is to develop a network of people, communities, and organizations working to improve timely access to quality end-of-life care. Caring Connections will be implementing It’s About How You LIVE, a national community engagement campaign encouraging consumers to make informed decisions about end-of-life care and services. Information about Caring Connections is available at http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3285 and at www.caringinfo.org
The July MCCC community meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 5 at Crossroads Hospice, located at 1634 Sycamore View Road. Coalition Leader Emily Fox-Hill will present the program, which will be an overview of Caring Connections and the It's About How You Live campaign. There will be no MCCC community meeting in August.
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June 2004 MCCC Community Meeting Agenda
Agenda:
1. Food and fellowship
2. Speaker: Jane Owen, MSN, APRN, BC, CHPN, CCRN
3. Introduction of the community attending
4. Summary review of May meeting Emily Fox-Hill
5. Items introduced by the community to be added to the agenda
6. Reports:
* Communications Paul Mosteller/Dan Rojecwicz/Diana Dralle/Wendy Santee
* Speakers Bureau Dee Flood/Jane Owen
* Faith Group Ed Norris/Wanda Jamison/Mike Davis
* Nursing Home Initiative Mary Ann Capocaccia/Emily Fox-Hill
7. Announcement of meeting site and program for July community meeting