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Patients Tell Their Stories | Palliative Care | Center
Check out these stories of real people living with a serious illness and benefitting from palliative care.
Leading Experts | Palliative Care | Center
Meet our team of experts working restlessly to advance the care of patients living with a serious illness. We believe understanding what matters to the patient holds the keys to better care. And we’re here to give you the strategies, resources and connections to build or strengthen a palliative care program that best meets your patients’ and your organizations’ needs.
Programs honored for innovation in palliative, end-of-life care
Spectrum Health Lakeland in Saint Joseph, Mich., and Novant Health in Winston-Salem, N.C., will receive 2020 Circle of Life Awards for their programs to expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care.
Two programs recognized as 2020 Circle of Life Award honorees
Two programs that expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care will be honored with the 2020 Circle of Life Award. Now in its 21st year, the Circle of Life Award celebrates innovation in palliative and end-of-life care.
Palliative Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this episode, Marie Cleary-Fishman, vice president of clinical quality at AHA is joined by Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and faculty at Mt. Sinai Health Systems in NYC and MacArthur genius awardee to discuss COVID-19’s impact on caring for seriously ill patients.
Serious Illness, Palliative Care, and the Impact of COVID-19
This Center to Advance Palliative Care webinar for AHA members discusses tools, skills, and training that hospitals and health systems should deploy immediately to ensure appropriate symptom management and patient communication in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Palliative Care for Today’s Patient Needs
So what is palliative care? It’s specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. And, it’s based on the needs of the patient, not on the patient’s prognosis. In today’s health care environment, more and more hospitals and health systems are forming and training multidisciplinary teams to offer human-centric, palliative care services so seriously ill patients can live better.
Achieving high-value, goal-concordant care for patients with serious illness
Cedars-Sinai President and CEO Tom Priselac talks with Diane Meier, M.D., director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, about building a culture of goal-concordant care for seriously ill patients.
AHA, CAPC offer palliative care strategies, tools aimed at quality and value
In this AHA Stat Blog, Marie Cleary-Fishman, R.N., AHA vice president of clinical quality, talks about the new digital Palliative Care Support Hub, where hospitals and health systems can find everything they need for designing, measuring and expanding palliative care services that put patients first.
Perspective: Prioritizing Palliative Care
Chronic diseases affect 133 million Americans of all ages, including 12 million adults and 400,000 children who have serious illnesses. By 2025, nearly half the population will have one or more chronic conditions.