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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

In It Together: How Palliative Care Spread to All of California’s Public Hospitals

In 2008, while 43% of California hospitals had palliative care programs, only 22% of public hospitals (four) had them. Recognizing that a lack of palliative care services in public hospitals impedes appropriate care for underserved populations, CHCF launched a five-year initiative to introduce or expand palliative care in the state’s 17 acute care public hospitals.

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5th Annual HASC Palliative Care Transitions Conference
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Thank you to the more than 200 attendees at the 2013 HASC Palliative Care Transitions Conference at the Hilton Pasadena, and thank you 2013 Sponsors! Click the photos to view a slide show from the event.

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Briefs Focus

How Can We Raise Awareness About Palliative Care?
An Interview with Helen McNeal The CSU Institute for Palliative Care educates professionals and the public on the realities of palliative care in our health care system

Helen McNeal is Executive Director of the California State University Institute for Palliative Care, the first statewide educational and workforce development initiative dedicated specifically to palliative care. The Institute at the flagship campus, CSU-San Marcos, will offer palliative care training for professionals, and it will educate the public about the value of palliative care and how to access it. Today, we talk with Helen about the work the Institute is doing to bring palliative care awareness to the public.

Briefs Focus

AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence Initiative Releases Palliative Care Guide
E-News Article from the Center of Advance Palliative Care

The AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (HPOE) initiative, in collaboration with the Center to Advance Palliative Care, recently released a new guide that provides hospital and health care system leaders with the knowledge and resou

Health Care Headlines

Hospitals Opting for Palliative Care
Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, August 6, 2012

The 80-year-old cancer patient wanted to return to his Florida home to die, but the oncologist at the 400-staffed-bed Sarasota Memorial Hospital strongly suggested hormone treatment that required a longer hospital stay.

General Information

Doctors Really Do Die Differently
Research Says That More Physicians Plan Ahead, Reject CPR, and Die in Peace

Ken Murray, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC, examines the existing evidence on the end-of-life choices doctors make and how those choices not only differ from the general public, but may lead to a more peaceful way to die. Read the article.