Description
Polypharmacy in hospice care often undermines comfort, safety, and value. This session delivers actionable strategies to identify and reduce medication burden using evidence-based deprescribing frameworks aligned with goals of care. Attendees will gain practical tools to improve symptom management, minimize adverse events, and enhance interdisciplinary collaboration. The session also highlights how AI-enabled decision support can safely accelerate deprescribing, strengthen compliance, and drive operational efficiency—equipping organizations to deliver higher-quality, patient-centered end-of-life care. 
Learning Outcomes
1. After completing this activity, participants will be able to identify at least three common contributors to polypharmacy in hospice patients and their impact on patient. 
2. After completing this activity, participants will be able to apply a structured deprescribing framework to evaluate the appropriateness of medications based on prognosis, goals. 
Faculty
Raianne Melton, CHPN,RN,BSN 
Raianne Melton is the Director of Clinical Services of Professional Services for Axxess, the fastest-growing home healthcare technology company. In this role, she serves as a subject matter expert in hospice and palliative care, assisting in the creation of training and certification courses for these specialties. Raianne also supports patient engagement as a consultant for Axxess’s CAHPS Solution, is an ANCC Lead Nurse Planner, is a member of the Alliance Education Workgroup, Emerging Models and Innovative Care Workgroup and is a Alliance Grassroot Ambassador. She is a recipient for the McKnight’s 2026 Pinnacle Marketplace Influencer Award. Raianne has 20 years of experience in hospice care with various companies. In one of her recent roles, she served as the Director of Clinical Strategy for Banner Health, where she was responsible for developing strategic education to support current and future business opportunities and redefining the delivery model for palliative care programming to improve patient outcomes. Raianne earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Phoenix and is certified by the Hospice and Palliative Care Association as a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse (CHPN). 
Sarah Payne 
Polypharmacy in hospice care often undermines comfort, safety, and value. This session delivers actionable strategies to identify and reduce medication burden using evidence-based deprescribing frameworks aligned with goals of care. Attendees will gain practical tools to improve symptom management, minimize adverse events, and enhance interdisciplinary collaboration. The session also highlights how AI-enabled decision support can safely accelerate deprescribing, strengthen compliance, and drive operational efficiency—equipping organizations to deliver higher-quality, patient-centered end-of-life care. 
Sarah Nigro
TBA


Price
Alliance Members: FREE
Non-Members: $70
All listed times are for the Eastern Time Zone