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. Direction and technical assistance are provided by Mount Sinai School of Medicine. www.capc.org

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 CentersSM (PCLC) - a major training and mentoring initiative. It also sponsors www.getpalliativecare.org, a website for patients and families.

CAPC is supported by the Aetna Foundation, the Brookdale Foundation, the JEHT Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Direction and technical assistance are provided by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City.

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

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