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Post Nursing home palliative care
Author: Lucy
Date: Jun 19, 2007 9:39 am

I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has a program up and running

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Re:Nursing home palliative care (by dianemeier on 06/25/2007)
I'd like to refer you to Eileen Chcichin at the Jewish Home and Hospital in NYC or Mary Ersek at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. Both have extensive experience and many contacts. In addition there are a lot of resources on our website:
http://www.capc.org/palliative-care-across-the-continuum/long-term/

I hope these are helpful.

Diane Meier, CAPC, and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Re:Nursing home palliative care (by tasha_seriousillness on 07/19/2007)
I would also suggest talking to Dr. David Weissman, a CAPC consultant and a physician-educator at Wisconsin Medical College. He was the PI on a project designed to assist skilled nursing facilities in creating action plans to initiate pain management programs. (For a review of the study, see: Weissman, D.E., Griffie, J., Muchka, S, & Matson, S. (2000). Building an institutional commitment to pain management in long-term care facilities. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 20(1), 35-43.) I'm guessing he could probably point you to institutions that were successful in getting a program up an running.

In addition, his group published some materials to help SNFs interested in setting up a program. See Weissman, D.E., Griffie, J., Muchka, S., & Matson, S. (1998). Improving Pain Management in Long-Term Care Settings: a resource guide for institutional change. Medical College of Wisconsin. You can get this material, and reach Dr. Weissman through EPERC (End-of-life Palliative Education Resource Center) http://www.eperc.mcw.edu.

Hope this helps!

Tasha Beauchamp, MSc
+ Re:Nursing home palliative care (by dbz on 08/17/2007)
What would you like to know? I started a PC program in a NH 8 years ago.
You can email me directly if you'd like.
Re:Nursing home palliative care (by dbz on 08/20/2007)
I was employed by the nursing home.
+ Re:Nursing home palliative care (by janetbraun on 09/05/2007)
We have a palliative care consult service that serves the LTC agencies in our community. It is primarily an ARNP practice. jbraun
Re:Nursing home palliative care (by maryanncapocaccia on 09/19/2007)
Articles to assist in determining residents capacity to decide on advance directives.
Assessing Capacity
Emergency Medicine clinics of North America-Volume 18, Issue 2 (May 2000) Stuart S. Miller, MD and Deborah B Marin, MD

Ten Myths About Decision-Making Capacity
Ethics
Linda Gianzini, MD, MPH, et al.
J Am Med Dir Assoc 2004;5:263-267

Can the Patient Decide?
Evaluating Patient Capacity in Practice
Marc Tunzi,MD, Natividad Medical Center, Salinas, California
American Family Physician, July 15,2001/Volume 64, Number 2

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