2026 Midwest Regional Conference on Palliative & End of Life Care

2026 Midwest Regional Conference on Palliative & End of Life Care is organized by Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association (MHPCA) and will be held from Nov 08 - 10, 2026 at The Resort At Lake Of The Ozarks, Lake Ozark, Missouri, United States of America.

Conference Goals:

• Improve standards of practice through education of professionals and non-professionals involved in providing palliative and end of life care;
• Improve access to appropriate palliative and end of life care through the alignment of individualized needs with available care; and
• Stimulate dialogue on ethical issues related to palliative and end of life care.

Conference Objectives:
Participants will be able to:

• Describe and apply tools used to identify patients appropriate for palliative and end of life care.
• Use effective pain and symptom management medications and treatments to improve outcomes.
• List communications tools to improve difficult and painful discussion of end-of-life concerns, and apply to practice;
• Recognize importance of coordination of care when multiple providers are involved, and utilize coordination of care in the clinical setting; and
• Examine current policies and regulations for providers of palliative and end of life care.