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Author: BarbZenker
Date: Jan 14, 2009 11:53 am
Our pediatric palliative service chose Quality in Life Team or QUILT as our program name a few years ago. The name has been very helpful in explainig to patients and families what our service can provide. We just recently are considering expanding this name to the adult service as well (but still denoting if the service is pediatric or adult and palliative care could still be a sub-title). However, we are experiencing some questions from administration. They feel the program should simply be called "Palliative Care". They feel this would be more consistent with national terms. What are others' experiences? Do your programs have other names in addition to palliative care? My experience in peds is that the QUILT name works well (most people don't know what palliative care is and if they do, many associate that term with end of life.) Thank you!
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Re:Program Name (by kellykomatz on 01/14/2009)
Our pediatric palliative care program was named "Community PedsCare". It is a collaborative effort between several entities in Northeast Florida, with Community Hospice of Northeast Florida being one of the main contributors - hence - the Community PedsCare name. We have our own logo as well as name badges. I agree that alot of confusion still exists about what is palliative care other than trying to "hide and not disclose that really mean hospice" :). As you are probably aware, most of the pediatric programs throughout the country have many different names - some with the words palliative and/or hospice, but rarely.
+ Re:Program Name (by SharonBauer on 01/14/2009)
We just named our peds palliative care C.H.O.I.C.E.S. Stands for courage, hope, options, insightful, compass, empathy and supprt.
The adult program here is 'Just" palliative care but we wanted something catchy and fun to market with. We think the name reflects palliative care.

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