Palliative Care
Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: how mandated access to at-home palliative care has made all the difference for some patients; and a town’s first-person account of battling the opioid epidemic.
The AHA and Center to Advance Palliative Care this week announced a strategic partnership to develop and disseminate training and other resources to help health care providers expand access to palliative care and adopt a population health approach to improve care for patients with serious illness.
Three programs that expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care today received 2018 Circle of Life Awards.
Three programs that expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care will receive 2018 Circle of Life Awards July 27 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.
Organization: Bluegrass Care Navigators, Lexington, Kentucky. Organization: Bluegrass Care Navigators, Lexington, Kentucky. Innovation highlights were its strong, diverse partnerships; strategic, thoughtful innovations; and care in the gaps.
Recent Achievements:
Organization: Louisiana State Penitentiary Hospice Program, Angola, LA. Angola is widely viewed as one of the toughest prisons in the US—most inmates are serving life-time sentences. Average age of those in the prison is 42; average age of death is 52. The hospice’s…
Organization: Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. The program was cited for creation of a Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care equal to other medical departments; integration of a certified hospice program as a resource…
Organization: Children’s Program of San Diego Hospice and Children’s Hospital and Health Center (now called Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center), San Diego, CA. The collaboration between the hospice and the children’s hospital included…
Organization: Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, Winston-Salem, NC. Innovation highlights noted were the Community Partnership for End of Life Care (nearly 250 community organizations and individuals), medical school curriculum in hospice and palliative care, and a comprehensive…