Patricia A. Goodwin, ACSW, LCSW, ACHP-SW

Patricia Goodwin has over 30 years of experience as a social worker in the health care field, including hospitals, long term care facilities, home health and hospice. She has provided direct service, supervised other social workers, coached the interdisciplinary team in assessment and problem solving, and has experience in promoting patient/family satisfaction through her positions as a patient representative and service improvement project manager.

As an advocate for ongoing education, Pat served for three years on the Florida Hospice and Palliative Care Association’s annual forum planning committee and was a member of NHPCO’s Professional Education Committee. She joined the online faculty for the Manager Development Program in 2013, working with most of the Level II modules.

While co-chairing a hospital ethics committee, she received extensive training in clinical ethics through the University of Pittsburgh Consortium Ethics Program and recently became a faculty member for the online Level 1 MDP Module Assessing Ethical Dilemmas.

Pat was fortunate to participate in leadership training provided by the Disney Institute to a hospital system; her social work degrees are from the University of Michigan.

Pat has a special interest in the psychosocial/spiritual dimensions of end-of-life care, clinical and organizational ethics and leadership development. In addition to talking to community groups on end-of-life topics, she has given professional presentations and workshops at the local and state level as well as nationally for NHPCO.  She currently serves on the Ethics Committee of a local hospice and assists hospice volunteer coordinators with facilitating training on end-of-life topics.