LifeCircle-South Dakota’s Hospice and Palliative Care Network’s monthly virtual professional education is held on the SECOND WEDNESDAY of the month from 12:00-1:00 p.m. CT/ 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MT. Click here to join LifeCircle. Once you receive your welcome email, you will be able to create a member account. To register for LifeCircle’s education, please use SDAHO’s Member Portal Calendar of Events.
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11/12/25 | Hospice Quality and Compliance: Guidance from a Hospice Public Health Advisor | Recording
7/9/25 | Implementing an Age-Friendly Health System in the Nursing Home | Recoding
5/14/25 | Palliative Massage | Recording
3/12/25 | End of Life Doula Education | Recording
2/12/25 | The 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard – Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care Access in South Dakota | Recording
12/11/24 | Hospice Use Disparities in American Indian Persons with End-Stage Kidney Disease | Recording
9/11/24 | Perspectives on integrating community health workers into palliative care teams in South Dakota | Recording
6/12/24 | SD Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar Update | Recording
3/13/24 | M.A.I.D. – How to Respond to Patient and Family Questions | Recording
12/13/23 | Music and the Heart: Creating Therapeutic Support through Music and Heartbeats | Recording
9/15/23 | Utilizing Community Health Worker | Recording
6/14/23 | Dr. John Massey | Buprenorphine & its Efficacy for Patients with Serious Illness and End of Life Care Situations | Recording
3/8/23 | Dr. Francine Arneson | Clinical Indications for Medical Marijuana | Recording | Presentation
2020
- 4/15/20 | JR LaPlante | Native Americans and EOL
2019
- 6/12/19 | Implementing MOST
- 3/13/19 | David Brechtelsbauer, MD and Molly Keegan |Report from the SD State Plan for Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias Work Group: What we learned, What we did, What you can do
2018
- 12/19/18 | Deb Fischer-Clemens and Corey Brown | The M.O.S.T. Legislative Process
- 9/12/18 | Cameo Anders, MA (c), JD | Advance Directives, Medical Orders, and Something in Between
- 6/13/18 LuAnn Eidsness, MD | South Dakota MOST – POLST for South Dakotans
- 4/11/18 | LuAnn Eidsness, MD | Pain Management Principles
2017
- 12/13/17 | Joseph Rees, DO | Overcoming Roadblocks to Successful Transitions of Care
- 9/20/17 | Nancy Joyner, MS, APRN-CNS | Understanding POLST for South Dakota
- 6/14/17 | Katie Bloom, LCSW-PIP; David Brechtelsbauer, MD; and LuAnn Eidsness, MD | Dying with Dementia
- 3/15/17 | David Brechtelsbauer, MD | Having the Discussion, Getting Paid: Medicare’s Role in End-of-Life Care
2016
- 12/14/16 | Michael Bloom, PhD | Finding Your Humanity: Contending with the PITA* Patient (*Pain in the A##)
- 9/14/16 | Nancy Wise-Vander Lee, PhD | Managing Compassion Fatigue for Professionals
- 6/8/16 | Deborah Kullerd, MD | Respecting Choices in Long-Term Care
- 3/9/16 | Karla Abbott, RN, DNP | Comfort in Culture
2015
- 12/9/15 | Mary Hill, MA, JD, RN | Staff Reactions to Medically Futile Treatment
- 9/9/15 |Francine Arneson, MD | Dealing with Difficult Families
- 5/13/15 | Sandra White Shield | Cultural Consideration and Lakota Putting Life Away
- 2/11/15 | Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN | Whole Life Wellbeing: Exploring the Use of Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices
2014
- 11/12/14 | Priscilla Bade, MD and David Brechtelsbauer, MD | Palliative and Hospice Care in Long Term Facilities
- 8/13/14 | Brandi Tackett, RPh, PharmD | Palliating Dyspnea at End of Life
- 5/14/14 | Kate DeBartolo | The Conversation Project
- 2/12/14 | Lexi Haux, RN, BSN | South Dakota Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
2013
- 11/13/13 | Terri Peterson-Henry, MD and Pam Koepsel, MS, RN | Pediatric Palliative Care
- 8/14/13 | Mary Minton, PhD, RN | Palliative and End of Life Care: SD Statewide Survey Results
- 5/8/13 | Terri Peterson-Henry, MD | Go Wish – Facilitating Conversations About Care and End-of-Life Decisions
- 2/13/13 | Nancy Fahrenwald, PhD, RN | American Indian Community Partnerships: Living and Deceased Organ Donation and Transplant Education
2012
- 11/28/12 | Deb Fischer-Clemens and Sarah Jennings | Affordable Care Act
- 8/8/12 | Susan E. Andersen, MS, BSN | VA Care for Hospice & Palliative Care and Geriatric Veterans
- 5/9/12 | Matthew Malone, DO | Anti-Psychotic Medications, Differentiating Between Dementia & Delirium, Risks/Benefits to treatment, and Diagnostic Cues and Concerns
- 2/8/12 | Andrew Burnett, PhD and Mary Morris, MD | POLST: Planning to Care, Caring to Plan
2011
- 11/9/11 | Marcia Taylor | Creating a Home Based Palliative Care Program
- 8/10/11 | Priscilla Bade, MD | Meeting the Face to Face Requirements for Hospice Recertification
- 2/9/11 | Matthew Malone, DO | Methadone: Getting Comfortable With Its Use in the Hospice Patient
2010
- 11/10/10 | Jorge I. Ramirez MD and Caroline Schauer RN | We Honor Veterans: Creating a Veteran-Centric Culture
- 5/12/10 | Pam Koepsell, RN, MS | For Everything There is a Season – Creating Memories for the Family
- 2/10/10 | Reverend Gary Compton | Men & Grief
2009
- 11/4/09 | Jorge Ramirez, MD | Palliative Care – History to Present in the VA System
- 5/13/09 | Brandi Tackett, PharmD | Hospice Admission Orders Hospice House Admission Orders Comfort Pack – Just in Case