Laura N. Wiggins, MSN, APRN, BC-ANP, ACHPN has been selected to speak at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s 28th annual Management and Leadership Conference to be held in National Harbor, Maryland in April, 2013.
As the Director of The Steward Center for Palliative Care (affiliated with not for profit Hospice Savannah, Inc.), Laura will focus on the partnership between The Steward Center, Memorial Health University Medical Center, the Anderson Cancer Institute, and the Lewis Cancer Research Pavilion. Her talk is entitled “It’s called Collaboration; A Joint Venture to provide a Palliative Program of Excellence.”
Laura joined Hos- pice Savannah, Inc. in 2001 and has been a Nurse Practitioner with The Steward Center for Palliative Care for nine years, being named Director in 2010. She is a member of the current 2012-2013 Leadership Savannah class and holds professional memberships in the Nurse Practitioner Council of Coastal Georgia, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society.
The Steward Center for Palliative Care’s physicians and nurse practitioners focus on providing expert pain and symptom management long before the end of life. They are contracted to provide consults throughout Memorial Health University Medical Center, and to hold clinics in the Anderson Cancer Institute and at the Lewis Cancer Research Pavilion. Please visit www.Steward- Center.org or call 912-354- 8014 for more information.