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Upcoming Hospice Network Events:

 

Mark your calendars now!

 

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April 28, 2005 –     Hospice Veteran Partnership Steering Committee – 1 pm – 3 pm – Hospice of the Chesapeake’s Landover office

 

May 4, 2005 –        General Membership Meeting & Regulatory Workshop -10 am – Comfort Inn BWI – Jack Schwartz, J.D., Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland will update us on new Patient Plan of Care forms - state surveyors will also be present for Q&A session after lunch.  Click here for General Membership Registration. PDF or Annual Conference 2005 RFP.doc

 

May 19, 2005 –      CAHABA – The Nuts and Bolts of the Medicare Hospice Benefit/Hospice Billing Reminders – 8:30 am – 4:30 pm – Business Learning Center, Columbia. Cahaba Brochure.pdf

 

August 30, 2005 -   Pharmacotherapeutic Review for End-of-Life Care – Location TBA - for those planning to take the National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses exam, those needing CE’s towards Hospice & Palliative recertification, and practitioners who want to enhance drug therapy management skills - (more information and registration coming soon).

 

Sept. 30, 2005 -      M. E. T. Maryland End-of-Life training – Osler Hall, Baltimore -  based on the education for physicians in End-of-Live care (EPEC) program developed by the American Medical Association and jointly spons9ored by MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society - (more information and registration coming soon).

 

Nov. 2-3, 2005 -     HNM Annual Conference and Awards Dinner – Hilton in Columbia –conference committee plans to have 3 tracks; clinical, administrative, social / spiritual – special program geared towards chaplains, volunteers, assisted living managers and CNA’s will be highlighted  Annual Conference 2005 RFP.pdf

 

 

Hospice Member Events

 

 

 

April 26 – 7pm [Coastal Hospice, Inc.]

From Grassroots to Public Policy: Hospice in the US

Salisbury University, Holloway Hall

Call 410-742-8732 for more information

 

April 26 – [Coastal Hospice, Inc.]

Bereavement Luncheon with speaker Tom Hoyer

Call 410-871-7231 for more information

 

April 27, 2005 12:00 - 2:00 [Hospice Caring, Inc] *note date change from 4/24 to 4/27

Outback Staff Appreciation Day Lunch - Outback Steakhouse, Germantown

Call 301-869-4673 for more information

 

April 28 – 7:00-8:00 pm [Hospice of the Chesapeake]

Free Seminar on Living Wills – Discussion on frequently asked questions about living wills – Tilgham Room at Hospice of the Chesapeake

Call 443-837-1536 for more information

 

April 28 – noon – 1:30 [Hospice of Baltimore]

Bereavement Luncheon

Call 443-849-8251 for more information

 

May 3 –6:30-8:00 pm [Hospice of Baltimore]

Mother Loss Workshop

For more information call Hospice of Baltimore at 443-849-8251

 

Tuesdays, May 3- May 31 –1:00 – 2:30 pm[Harford Hospice]

Widows/Widowers Grief Support Group at Upper Chesapeake Hospital

For more information call Harford Hospice at 410-931-0990 ext 155

 

Tuesdays, May 3- May 31 –6:30-8:00 pm[Harford Hospice]

Widows/Widowers Grief Support Group at Upper Chesapeake Hospital

For more information call Harford Hospice at 410-931-0990 ext 155

 

May 4 –9:30-4:00 [Hospice Chaplain Group]

Chaplain Retreat at Bishop Claggett Center

For more information contact Sharon Froelich at 410-368-2825

 

May 7 – [Carroll Hospice]

Mother Loss Workshop

Call 410-871-7231 for more information

 

Tuesdays, May 3- June 14 –6:30-8:00 pm [Hospice of Baltimore]

Adults with Parental Loss Support Group

For more information call Hospice of Baltimore at 443-849-8251

 

May 10, 2005 – 8 am – noon [Stella Maris]

Update on Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s New in Treating Dementia, Delirium and Depression

Offers 3 Social Work Category 1 CEUs

Cost: $20 per person

Call Janet Ferra, 410-252-4500 ext. 7268

 

Wednesdays, May 11- June 15 –6:30-8:00 pm [Hospice of Baltimore]

Widowed Persons/ Life Partner Grief Support Group

For more information call Hospice of Baltimore at 443-849-8251

 

May 16 – 10:30-noon [Hospice of Baltimore]

Bereavement Network of Maryland Planning Meeting – Gilchrist Center

For more information contact Debbie Jones at 443-849-8200

 

May 25 –1:00-2:00 pm [Hospice of Baltimore]

Understanding Grief

For more information call Hospice of Baltimore at 443-849-8251

 

May 20-22, 2005 [Hospice Caring, Inc]

Camp Caring - Laytonsville

Call 301-869-4673 for more information

 

June 3-5 [Carroll Hospice]

Camp T.R. Bereavement Camp for ages 7-15

Call 410-871-7231 for more information

 

June 11, [Hospice Caring, Inc]

Kentland's Garden Tour

Call 301-869-4673 for more information

 

June 18, [Carroll Hospice]

Father Loss Workshop

Call 410-871-7231 for more information

 

June 24-25 [Harford Hospice]

Camp Chenoa – Bereavement camp for children 6-12 years of age

For more information contact Harford Hospice at 410-931-0990 ext 155

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