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September 23-24, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic
2nd International Conference on
Palliative Care
Clinical Trials and Pharmacovigilance
Joint Event
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Journal of Primary Care and General Practice | Volume 2
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?.
Speaker 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
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Eric G Bush
Hospice of the Chesapeake, USA
Community based palliative care, opportunities and challenges
J Prim Care Gen Pract, Volume:2