PALTC23 Conference Recordings SA18 Spiritual Care: Healthcare for the Whole Person by the Whole Team

Spiritual Care: Healthcare for the Whole Person by the Whole Team

Despite a desire to provide whole-person care, providers in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings often express a lack of comfort and knowledge in providing spiritual care. In this session, participants will gain hands-on experience with spiritual care tools and activities that may be utilized in the care of both patients and PALTC staff, including: - Tools for spiritual and values assessments - Mindfulness practices - Rituals to honor loss at the bedside and at staff gatherings - Incorporation of spiritual values in advance care planning conversations The roles of chaplain, clergy and social workers will be clarified, and participants will engage in dialogue on when and how medical providers may make referrals to chaplain services. A framework for spiritual care in medicine will be discussed as well as resources available in PALTC settings.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Describe a framework for providing spiritual care to patients in PALTC settings.
  • Demonstrate spiritual assessment using the FICA tool.
  • Incorporate experiential activities into the spiritual care of PALTC residents and staff.
  • Identify opportunities for referrals to chaplain services.

Chikal Patel, MD

Chikal Patel, MD, is an Internist, Hospice/Palliative Medicine physician and a Geriatrician. She currently works as the Market Medical Director for Senior Community Care within Optum Health covering AZ, OR and WA. She is a faculty at Creighton University, Phoenix campus and teaches medical students, residents, and fellows in the hospital setting. She is a board member and Treasurer of WA- PALTC. She is currently on the planning committee for the first chapter conference in WA to be held on March 31st, 2023.

Alexandra Donovan, BCC, MFA

Alexandra Donovan, BCC, MFA, is a Board Certified Chaplain who has worked in hospital, hospice, correctional, and behavioral health settings. Currently, she works with Optum's Home and Community clinical teams, providing spiritual and emotional care support to clinicians and healthcare leaders around the country as they in turn support patients and their families in long term care settings. She is also a volunteer bereavement counselor at the Community Grief Center in Greeley, CO.

Sing T. Palat, MD, CMD

Sing T. Palat, MD, CMD, is a medical director for Optum Senior Community Care. She works with advance practice clinicians in long-term care settings and precepts medical students, residents and fellows. Dr. Palat is the President of the Colorado chapter of AMDA and a House of Delegates Representative to the AMDA Board.

  • 1.5 CME
  • 1.5 CMD Management 
  • 1.5 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.5 management hours toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. Each physician should claim only those credit hours that he/she actually spent in the activity. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.

The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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