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Palliative Care

Overview

Palliative Care
Managing patients with progressive disease

Welcome to the HASC Palliative Care. As a group of palliative care professionals who are hospital based, we hope to accomplish our goals more quickly and productively than we could as individuals. Palliative care has always been collaborative and we believe that through hospitals working together with one another we can first and foremost provide better patient care, manage pain and symptoms more effectively, and demonstrate palliative care as a sustainable and worthwhile hospital endeavor.

On this site, we hope to provide you with palliative care resources, helpful links, useful articles, and a list serve, as well as basic information about Southern California programs and upcoming educational events.

End-of-life care for our patients’ families and loved ones can be one of the most challenging times of their lives and at HASC we are committed to being there for all the days of our patients’ lives.

We thank you for visiting. Please take some time to look around and feel free to let us know how we can better serve you and your patients.

 

Briefs Focus

Become Certified: The Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Palliative Care

Listen to the Joint Commission Certification Process Podcast

Certification helps you build the structure to deliver consistent care and improve patient and family satisfaction.

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National Healthcare Decisions Day

National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD), April 16, is a day set aside to inspire, educate and empower the public and health care providers about the importance of advance care planning.  It’s an initiative to encourage patients to express their wishes regarding health care and for providers and facilities to respect those wishes, whatever they may be. April 16 will be here before we know it, so be sure to take action now.

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ABC’s of Palliative Care

ACCURACY

Are you tired of staying late because of sloppy documentation techniques? Are you frustrated by the documentation habits of others?

Excellence in Interprofessional Palliative Care Documentation

In palliative care, documentation is at the heart of our communications. You may think your documentation techniques are good enough, but documentation is about excellence.

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2014 POLST Rollout Web Resource

California’s revised Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form goes into effect on October 1, 2014.

A one-stop resource about the 2014 POLST rollout is now available by visiting:

http://capolst.org/2014polst/

This page includes everything you need to know about the POLST rollout, including:

General Information

Post-MSW Palliative Care Social Work Certificate

The social worker is a vital member of the team providing compassionate, patient and family-centered care that relieves suffering and improves quality of life for those with serious or chronic illness.

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Palliative Care, Rehabilitation & Hospice by Timothy Quill, MD, FACP, FAAHPM

Timothy Quill MD is the Director of the Palliative Care Program at University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. Follow the link below to download his Lecture titled “Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Hospice:  who, what, when, where, and why?” Read more.

Palliative Care, Rehabilitation & Hospice