End of Life Option Act

Caroline Boaz is with Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center as a Registered Nurse and Clinical Nurse Specialist and is growing their palliative medicine program. She is also nursing faculty at California State University.

With over twenty years of experience in hospice and palliative care, Caroline has held positions of Associate Director for the California State University Institute for Palliative Care at Cal State San Marcos and Executive Director of Inpatient Services with San Diego Hospice and the Institute for Palliative Medicine.

Caroline will be speaking about the End of Life Option Act. This new California law permits terminally ill adult patients with capacity to make medical decisions to be prescribed an aid-in-dying medication if certain conditions are met. Signed into law by Governor Brown in October 2015, the law went into effect on June 9, 2016.