Your colleagues are learning how to operate thriving palliative care programs. To date, teams from over 300 institutions have attended training at the Palliative Care Leadership Centers (PCLC). The following six health care institutions started or expanded their palliative care programs with training and mentoring from the PCLCs. Read about how PCLC training helped the teams and their program models, and learn from hints they have for other palliative care advocates.

Type of hospital: 289-bed facility with a 20-bed intensive care unit
Type of program: Palliative care consult service and 4-bed inpatient unit in a skilled nursing facility
PCLC training: University of California, San Francisco

Type of hospital: 607-bed hospital serving the Detroit area and the largest of six acute care hospitals in the St. John Health System, which is part of Ascension Health
Type of program: Palliative care consult service
PCLC training: Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio.

Type of hospital: 737-bed private hospital operated by the Marian Health System, a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare alliance based in six Midwestern and Northeastern states
Type of program: Palliative care consult service
PCLC training: Medical College of Wisconsin

Type of hospital: 99-bed community hospital
Type of program: Palliative care consult service
PCLC training: Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Type of hospital: 908-bed acute care teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Alabama School of Medicine
Type of program: Palliative care consult service, with two inpatient units scheduled to open this year
PCLC training: Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Type of program: A collaborative effort between Memorial Health Medical Center, a 530-bed tertiary teaching hospital, and Hospice Savannah, a community-based, not-for-profit hospice with an average daily census of 241
PCLC training: Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass, Lexington, Kentucky