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Palliative Care

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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.

 

The Team Approach to Palliative Care
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The Team Approach to Palliative Care

Providence St. Jude Medical Center

Whether you’re looking at the business case for palliative care at your hospital or learning about the long-term community benefit of the program, the key to effective care and program management is collaboration across the continuum. Watch this short video of Dorothy Lippman, Nurse Practitioner at St. Jude Medical Center, discussing the importance of the team approach to caring for palliative care patients and their families.

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Letting Go
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?

Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left. Respected physician and palliative care expert Dr. Atul Gawande writes about talking with patients about end-of-life care.

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CCCC Annual Conference Better than Ever

Health care professionals from around the state gathered in Burlingame on April 9 & 10 to network and hear the latest on palliative medicine and end-of-life care. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the presenters’ PowerPoints to see what you missed! Visit the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California’s website for more information.