The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) provides health care professionals with the tools, training and technical assistance necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs in hospitals and other health care settings. CAPC is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services for people facing serious illness.

As the nation's leading resource for palliative care program development, CAPC offers comprehensive training for palliative care programs at every stage - from strategic planning and funding to operations and sustainability. CAPC provides seminars, audio conferences, tools, reference materials, a robust website, and the Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (PCLC) - a major training and mentoring initiative. It also sponsors www.getpalliativecare.org, a website for patients and families.

CAPC is supported by the Archstone Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Brookdale Foundation, The Donaghue Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, New York State Health Foundation, The Olive Branch Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, United Hospital Fund, and The Y.C. Ho/Helen and Michael Chiang Foundation.

For more information about CAPC, please review the following:
FAQs
CAPC Director, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP
CAPC Advisors
CAPC Staff
CAPC Videos

The Center to Advance Palliative Care
1255 Fifth Avenue, Suite C-2
New York, NY 10029
212.201.2670