When Death Comes Knocking: Palliative & Hospice Care

Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with Ellen Mahoney, Providence St. Joseph Hospital: We will discuss how to recognize when death is approaching, and the options for addressing that inevitability, or “The Art of Dying Peacefully." These options include palliative care, hospice care, use of a death doula or soul midwife, and the use of California’s euthasia law.

Since 2010, Dr. Ellen Mahoney has been the medical director of the Cancer Program at St. Joseph Hospital, and she has served as the medical director for St. Joseph’s Perioperative Services since 2007. Dr. Mahoney is a former interim medical director for Hospice of Humboldt. Dr. Mahoney trained as a surgeon at Stanford University of Medicine after graduating with her MD degree from there in 1981. By 1986 she had risen to become Chief Resident in Surgery at Stanford before going on to become a board-certified Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in1993. Dr. Mahoney moved to Arcata in 2000 and opened her own practice in breast cancer surgery. She speaks frequently on breast cancer to community groups, and serves as a medical editor and expert contributor to the website of the Susan Love Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of breast cancer through innovation, education, research, and advocacy.

The presentation will begin promptly at noon.

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