WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: October 24, 2013 Featuring: Kelly McCutcheon Adams, LICSW, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Lauge Sokol-Hessner, MD, Attending Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Kate Lally, MD, Medical Director of Palliative Care, Kent Hospital and Medical Director, VNA of Care New England Donna L. Smith, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Virginia Mason Clinics at Virginia Mason Medical Center   For over a year, building on others’ great work, IHI has been engaged in two groundbreaking initiatives to reduce the confusion and improve the circumstances that surround end-of-life care for most Americans in the US. The Conversation Project, founded in collaboration with IHI, is a grassroots effort to encourage and enable every one of us to discuss our wishes regarding end-of-life care with our friends and loved ones, long before there’s a medical crisis. The second initiative, Conversation Ready, is designed to capture the ways in which health care organizations can effectively respect a