A State Rep. Visit and a Colloquium This Week

The Abington School Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday has been cancelled. 

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Arcadia University’s College of Health Sciences Colloquium will present “Non-physician Health Professionals: Changing Roles, New Ethical Challenges” with Kenneth L. Klothen on Wednesday at 7 p.m. with and informal reception in the Great Room lobby, followed by the lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Commons Great Room. A Q&A will follow the presentation. The event is free and open to the public. Attendance provides one hour of Act 48 professional development credit.

Klothen will discuss questions relative to the non-physician health profession and what the ethical obligations of non- professionals in health care to patients. Several clinical cases also will be examined in an attempt to answer these questions.

“The role of both health-care reform and the dramatic progress of genetic medicine is creating new roles for non-professional health care practitioners both in the U.S. and globally,” Klothen, Principal of Kenneth Klothen and Associates, Consultants in Bioethics and Health Care Mediation, said.

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State Rep. Madeleine Dean will host a public policy hearing on the privatization of state liquor stores on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at Big Top Beverage, 1555 Easton Road. The event is open to the public. Several state legislators from around the region will be at the hearing.

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Abington Township offices will be closed on March 29 for Good Friday; trash pickup for those affected will be Monday, April 1. There will be no paper recycling April 1.