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Join physicians, health care professionals, and members of the public at a free live webinar to enhance communication and connection about serious illness, end-of-life, and after-death issues presented by the Washington Serious Illness Care Coalition.

Hope Wechkin, MD, FAAHPM, HMDC, WSICC chair, and medical director of EvergreenHealth Hospice, will reintroduce the coalition and its new mission, vision, values, and strategic goals.

Keynote speaker Edwin Lindo, JD, assistant dean for social and health justice in the Office of Healthcare Equity and faculty member within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, will explore our biases and identify ways racism impacts the care patients receive. You will develop tools to advocate for people from marginalized communities, provide culturally sensitive care that honors people’s values and beliefs, and deliver high-quality, compassionate care during serious illness and at the end of life.

We’ll close the webinar with a panel of physicians, health care professionals, and advocates who will share their unique expertise and discuss how to ensure that people of every background, culture, and identity can have their needs met and their wishes explored and honored.

WSICC, formerly known as the Washington End-of-Life Coalition, was formed in the early 1990s and is jointly sponsored by the WSMA Foundation and the Washington State Hospital Association. The coalition is a broad-based group of individuals and organizations dedicated to helping patients, physicians, clinicians, and caregivers improve the ways we prepare for and treat serious illness and end-of-life care. This free webinar serves as part of our mission to promote education and conversations about living and dying in Washington state.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.