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.
The initiative, Spreading Palliative Care in Public Hospitals (SPCPH), drew on the expertise of the California Safety Net Institute (SNI) and the University of California, San Francisco’s Palliative Care Leadership Center™ (PCLC) to accomplish three main goals:
- Develop new, sustainable inpatient palliative care programs in California’s public hospitals
- Provide models for culturally sensitive palliative care services and increase access to palliative care for California’s racial and ethnic minorities
- Support expansion and enhancement of existing public hospital palliative care programs and create a uniform data collection tool
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Upcoming Webinar: Use of Telemedicine to Improve Palliative Care Coordination, Education and Delivery Across a Rural State
This session will discuss implementation of telemedicine as a tool for tertiary care centers to provide palliative care education, collaboration, and consultations to regional referral hospitals, nursing facilities, and home care agencies.
Wednesday, April 24th at 12 noon EDT
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Stakeholders Gather for Meeting and Conversation on Patient Quality of Life and Palliative Care
On Wednesday April 3rd, more than 40 groups, including the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss potential congressional and executive branch action on patient quality of life and palliative care.
The meeting, hosted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, convened representatives from organizations across the healthcare spectrum, among them providers, advocacy groups, associations, researchers, and foundations.
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