Web cast on home health care during an influenza pandemic

Published 5:06 pm Monday, July 7, 2008

Submitted by the North Georgia Health District



PlanFirst Web cast on Home Health Care during an influenza pandemic. The live Web cast is scheduled for Tuesday, July 8, at 2 p.m. and viewer

questions will be taken during the broadcast via e-mail. This “webinar” is episode 5 in a series on pandemic influenza.

Key topics:

* Assumptions that need to be considered when assigning a care-giving role to home care agencies during a pandemic

* Operational, ethical and legal challenges pandemic planners will face

* Strategies home health care agencies can employ to overcome these challenges

Speakers

* Alexis Silver, senior director, policy and development, Home Care Association of New York State

* Geraldine A. Coyle, deputy chief consultant, administration and logistics, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

* James G. Hodge Jr., associate professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health