Samaritan Hosts Veteran-Centric Care Across the Continuum Conference

Samaritan is committed to honoring veterans and their families by providing care that recognizes their military service and responds to their unique needs through respectful inquiry, compassionate listening and grateful acknowledgment. Each year, the not-for-profit healthcare provider serves nearly 500 veterans through a range of life-enhancing services at any stage of serious illness.

On Wednesday, October 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Samaritan is hosting Veteran-Centric Care Across the Continuum – a free virtual conference for professionals in healthcare, veteran services and community providers focusing on the importance of providing veteran-centric care in all healthcare settings, how to improve the experience of care and services provided to the veteran community and how to best guide veterans and their families in identifying other services and supports.

This conference is presented in collaboration with the New Jersey Healthcare Association; the Cooper University Health Care and Deborah Heart and Lung Center HeroCare Connect™ program; the New Jersey Department of Military & Veterans Affairs; Veterans Affairs NJ Healthcare System Community Care Network; and Opus Peace. The conference will offer informative programming – from featured speakers to panel presentations – emphasizing the important of providing specialized, veteran-centric care across the healthcare continuum. Deborah Grassman, NP, the CEO/Founder of Opus Peace, will be delivering the keynote address, entitled “PTSD, Moral Injury, Soul Injury: How to Become an Agent of Hope and Healing.” Continuing education credits for professionals will be available.

WHAT: Samaritan’s Veteran-Centric Care Across the Continuum Online Conference

WHEN: Wednesday, October 26, 2022

8:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: ONLINE – access information provided after RSVPing to the event.

AGENDA:

• KEYNOTE – PTSD, Moral Injury, Soul Injury: How to Become an Agent of Hope and Healing – Deborah Grassman, NP, CEO/Founder, Opus Peace

• PRESENTATION – The Imperative of Veteran-Centric Care Across the Continuum – Dr. Stephen Goldfine, Chief Medical Officer, Samaritan

• PANEL – Case Presentations:

• HeroCare Connect™, Deborah Heart and Lung Center and Cooper University Health Care

• New Jersey Hospital Association
• https://www.njha.com/covernj/navigators/

• New Jersey Department of Military & Veterans Affairs

• PRESENTATION – Veterans Affairs NJ Healthcare System Community Care Network –

Sherry M. Sheppard, MD, MBA, Clinical Director of VANJHCS Community Care Network

• https://www.va.gov/COMMUNITYCARE/index.asp

DETAILS:

While the event is free and will be held online, RSVP is required. For more information and to RSVP, visit: https://samaritannj.org/hospice-blog-and-events/events/veterans-conference-veteran-centric-care/

***NOTE: Link to access the online conference will be provided to attendees after RSVPing for the event.***

Contact Esther Folaranmi of Samaritan at (856) 552-3285 or info@SamaritanNJ.org for additional information and questions.

About Samaritan:

Samaritan is a not-for-profit, independent healthcare provider locally founded in Moorestown, New Jersey in 1980 as one of the first hospices in the country. Today Samaritan is one of the State’s leading providers of serious illness care through a range of home-based services that include hospice care, palliative (comfort) medicine, primary care, grief support and counseling, education, and advocacy. Samaritan serves people in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties who are coping with the stresses of aging, serious illness or grief wherever they call home. Samaritan also has two dedicated inpatient hospice centers in Voorhees and Mount Holly. Beyond the services covered by Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance plans, Samaritan annually provides nearly $1M in donor-funded non-reimbursed care for patients and families in the South Jersey region. A thrift shop in Westmont also supports Samaritan services and programs. Samaritan is accredited by The Joint Commission; a member of the National Partnership for Hospice Innovation; and is a four-star hospice in the national We Honor Veterans program. For more information, visit www.SamaritanNJ.org.