An advanced Workshop that is open to MCC participants who have completed MCC 121 and MCC 122.
The workshop is also open to California licensed health care professionals, including owners, administrators and medical staff of California licensed health care facilities.
Lead Instructor: Rolando Tringale, MD
11 AM – 3 PM
Introduction
Many of the patients, who receive care within health care facilities, including hospices, residential care, assisted living, and rehabilitation facilities, represent the target group of “seriously ill” patients for whom California’s Compassionate Use Act was intended.
California’s Medical Marijuana Program Act acknowledges the important role of health care facility owners, administrators, and medical staff in reaching those patients who may benefit from cannabis as a treatment modality.
With the assistance of Roger Barnes, MD, Rolando Tringale, MD and attorney Stewart Richlin, the MCC Directory.org & Training Program formed the Health Care Facilities Committee to develop information, resources and services to assist physicians, health care facility owners, administrators and medical staff in developing protocols for providing medical cannabis to patients with a physician’s approval or recommendation.
The on going work of this Committee is the basis for the Medical Cannabis and Health Care Facility Workshop.
Workshop Syllabus:
1. Types of Health Care Facilities
2. The Most Effective Initial Contact within the Health Care Facility
3. Concerns regarding the Patient’s Primary Care Physician
4. The Physician’s Approval for the Patient’s Use of Cannabis
5. Information and Resources for health care facility patients, owners, administrators and medical staff regarding California’s Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) and how it works
6. Department of Public Health Protections under the MMP
7. Role of the Clean Green Certification Program to ensure clean and safe crop production, processing, handling, packaging and labeling of the medicinal cannabis
8. Role of the Collective or Cooperative in providing medicinal cannabis under the MMP
9. Establishing the Legality of the Medicinal Cannabis Collective
10. Ensuring Liability Protection for the Health Care Facility and Staff
11. The Health Care Facility’s Liability Protection Agreement with the Collective (including Insurance requirements)
12. Method of Intake Within the Health Care Facility
13. State Certified HIPAA Compliant Electronic Medical Record System that supports assessment and evaluation of the efficacy of the medicinal cannabis provided to the patient.
