Working Upstream in Advance Care Planning in Pandemic Palliative Care

Milana Zaurova¹, Mona Krouss¹, Sigal Israilov¹+18

• ¹Milana Zaurova, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Mona Krouss, MD, Lauren Parker, MD, MS, and Tita Castor, MD, are Assistant Professors of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and New York City Health and Hospitals (NYC H+H)/Elmhurst, New York, NY. Milana Zaurova is also Director of Palliative Care; Mona Krouss is also Senior Director of Patient Safety; Sigal Israilov is a Quality Improvement Scholar; Louis H. Hart III, MD, is Director of Equity, Quality, and Safety; Hillary Jalon, MS, is Senior Assistant Vice President; Georgia Conley, RN, MPA, is Associate Director; Khoi Luong, DO, is Medical Director of Post-Acute Care; Eric K. Wei, MD, MBA, is Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer; and Hyung J. Cho, MD, is Chief Value Officer; all with the Office of Quality and Safety, NYC H+H, New York, NY. Louis H. Hart III is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and NYC H+H/Kings County; Marina Ivanyuk, MD, is Chief of Palliative Care Service, NYC H+H/Coney Island; Pavel Shulman, MD, is Chief of Palliative Care Service, NYC H+H/Kings County; all in Brooklyn, NY. Robert Smeltz, MA, NP, ACHPN, is a Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine; Susan E. Cohen, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor and Chief of Palliative Care Section; and Hyung J. Cho, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine; all at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY. Susan E. Cohen is also Director of Palliative Care Program; Robert Smeltz is also Assistant Director of Palliative Care Program; and Hyung J. Cho is also a Hospitalist Physician; all with NYC H+H/Bellevue, New York, NY. Michael Frankenthaler, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College, and Chief of Palliative Care Service, NYC H+H/Metropolitan; and Jeffrey Nichols, MD, is at NYC H+H/Gouverneur; both in New York, NY. Natasha Suleman, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and Palliative Chief, NYC H+H/Lincoln, Bronx, NY. Lauren Parker is also Director of Outpatient Palliative Care; Osbely Tala, MSW, LCSW, ACHP-SW, is a Zelda Foster Fellow and Assistant Director of Palliative Care Service; Tita Castor is also Director of Palliative Care; all with NYC H+H/Elmhurst, Elmhurst, NY. Nicole Pearlstein, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and Director of Palliative Care, NYC H+H/Queens, Jamaica, NY. Elizabeth Kavanagh, NP, is with NYC H+H/Jacobi, Bronx, NY.