Important Note from CAPC on Quality Strategy
Readers, please take a moment to read the note below from Diane Meier, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). This is one of the most effective notes our contributors have seen on advocating for quality palliative care. Please share this post with your colleagues and any relevant organizations you are affiliated with. [...]
Diane Rehm Show on Palliative Care
Like many media sources in recent weeks, NPR and WAMU 88.5 tuned public radio listeners’ ears to the topic of palliative care August 24, 2010, with a segment on the Diane Rehm Show. Rehm’s report, New Studies in Palliative Care, discussed the value of palliative care in the context of the recent study published in [...]
New York Palliative Care Information Act
The New York Times journalist Jane Brody writes Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End an article published yesterday on the New York Palliative Care Information Act. The new bill, signed by New York governor Patterson, states that New York doctors and nurse practitioners must speak with terminally ill patients about hospice, palliative care and [...]
Spread the Word: Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds
A new study was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine and quickly picked up by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other media outlets. The story will likely lead to saturation for palliative care professionals, and in the wider population break [...]
Increasing Number of Palliative Care Programs in U.S. Hospitals
Some good news from the Center to Advance Palliative Care: the number of palliative care programs in US hospitals with 50 or more beds increased from 658 (24.5%) to 1,486 (58.5%)–a 125.8% increase from 2000-2008. Director Diane E. Meier, MD, states in a recent press release that palliative care “addresses the fragmentation of the healthcare system and [...]
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