Southern California Resources

• Calabasas Counseling and Grief Recovery Center

• California Association of Physician Groups

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Palliative Care Services

• Citrus Valley Medical Center – Inter-Community Campus

• Citrus Valley Medical Center – Queen of the Valley Campus

• Community Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Program

• Foothill Presbyterian Hospital

• Grief Recovery Institute

• IPCRC.net

• Lamp Community

• Loma Linda University Medical Center Palliative Care Program

• Miller Children’s Hospital Pediatric Supportive and Palliative Care Service

• Motion Picture & Television Fund Palliative Care Service

• Northridge Hospital Medical Center Palliative Care Program

• PAL-MED Connect Hotline

• Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

• Southern California Chapter of Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)

• St. John’s Regional Medical Center, Oxnard and St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital, Camarillo

• St. Joseph Hospital Inpatient Consultative Palliative Care Program

• Torrance Memorial Medical Center

• Walk With Sally

National Resources

• Alliance for Care at the End of Life

• American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine

• American Academy of Pain Management

• American College of Physicians

• American Hospice Foundation

• American Medical Directors Association

• American Pain Society

• American Society for Pain Management Nursing

• American Society on Aging

• California Coalition for Compassionate Care (Final Choices)

• California Hospice and Palliative Care Association

• Center to Advance Palliative Care

• Compassionate Friends

• Continuing Medical Education (Pain.com)

• Dartmouth Atlas Project

• Dying Well

• EdeleData (Epidemiology of Dying and End-of-Life Experience)

• End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium

• EPERC (End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center)

• Ethical Will

• George Mark Children’s House

• Hard Choices

• Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care

• Healing Environments

• Helping After Neonatal Death

• Hospice Action Network

• Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

• Hospice Foundation of America

• Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

• Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care

• International Association for Pain and Chemical Dependency

• International Association for the Study of Pain

• International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care

• International Palliative Wound Care Initiative

• Mayday Pain Project

• MedAl

• Metta Institute

• Mind Garden

• MISS Foundation

• MOM Study

• National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care

• National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

• National Institute for Jewish Hospice

• New York’s Beth Israel Hospital’s Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care

• Pain Treatment Topics

• Palliative Care Policy Center

• PalliMed.org

• POLST.org

• Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care program

• Sacred Dying Foundation

• Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network

• Sounds True

• Supportive Care Coalition

• The Needs of the Dying

• Therapeutic Riding Programs

• Today’s Caregiver Magazine

• Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End-of-Life Care (TIME)

• Upaya Institute and Zen Center

International Resources

• National Council for Palliative Care (UK)

• PalliativeDrugs.com

• Pediatric Pain Sourcebook

Palliative Care Tools

• Palliative Care Data Collection Tool

Publications

• 2010 AHA Presents Circle of Life Awards

• A Catalyst for Culture Change in End-of-Life Care

• A Guideline for Palliative and End of Life Care

• California Coalition for Compassionate Care November Newsletter

• Cost Savings Associated With US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs

• Creating a Palliative Care Program: Insights from Hospital Leaders

• Dr. Russell Portenoy’s Presentation 2/12/09

• FDA Approves Critical Medication for Pain Relief

• Health Affairs Journal

• Hospice care helps patients and loved ones

• Hospital Palliative Care Program Focus on Long Term Pain Care

• Hotline Provides Peer Support For End of Life Patient Care

• JAGS Media Outreach Results

• JAGS Newsletter 7/30/2010

• James Hallenbeck, MD

• Lung Cancer Patients Lived Longer with Palliative Care in Study

• New Analysis Shows Hospitals Continue to Implement Palliative Care Programs at Rapid Pace

• Off-Label Therapy Common Among Cancer Patients

• Optimizing the Success of a Palliative Care Consult Service: How to Average Over 110 Consults Per Month

• Palliative Medicine: Politics and Policy

• Primary Care Clinicians May Actively Direct Hospice Care

• Provider Magazine

• Same Disease Different Care: How Patient Health Coverage Drives Treatment Patterns in California

• Sharing the Care: The Role of Family in Chronic Illness

• Study: Doctors delay communicating end-of-life care issues with terminally ill patients

• The Case for Palliative Care

• The New England Journal of Medicine: Palliative Care – A Shifting Program

• The New Yorker Article: Letting Go

• TOPIC on END-OF-LIFE CARE: Who Decides When You Die?

• USA Today: Palliative care prolongs life, reduces suffering