Tulsa City-County Library and OU Physicians-Tulsa continue their partnership to raise awareness about important health topics through a speaker’s series called the Tulsa Health Literacy Project.
The next free program is “Palliative Care and Hospice: An Overview for the Health-Care Consumer,” Nov. 16, 6-7:30 p.m. in Central Library’s Aaronson Auditorium, Fifth Street and Denver Avenue.
What is palliative care and how does it differ from hospice? What patients benefit most from hospice and palliative care? Who provides hospice and palliative care? Where can this care be received?
Join Dr. Oliver Cerqueira to learn the answers to these questions and more, and most importantly how palliative care and hospice services help people with serious illness live life with quality and dignity.
Dr. Cerqueira completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa. Following residency, he worked as a hospitalist and in the hospice field before returning to the OU-TU School of Community Medicine in 2011 as an assistant professor of internal medicine. He currently supervises medical and physician assistant students in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He also practices part-time inpatient palliative medicine at Hillcrest Medical Center and is the medical director for Image Hospice in Tulsa and Ponca City.
TCCL has a wide selection of materials for further reading on palliative care and hospice options. A display of library resources will be available for checkout at the program.
For more information on TCCL programming and events, call the AskUs Hotline, 918-549-7323, or visit the library’s website, www.tulsalibrary.org.
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