CAPC Strategic Plan: 2023-2025
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality, equitable health care for people living with serious illness. CAPC’s vision is Palliative Care Everywhere. This means that the U.S. health care system recognizes and takes steps to relieve suffering for all patients with serious illness, in every setting, every time. From 2023-2025, CAPC will carry out our mission and vision by pursuing four goals.
Goal #1: Drive the health and growth of specialty palliative care
- Make the case for palliative care across all health care audiences
- Provide technical assistance on palliative care program design, operations, and innovation
- Advance leadership skills among palliative care professionals and trainees
- Disseminate data and insights on national palliative care trends, threats, and opportunities
- Convene palliative care professionals to facilitate community and peer learning
- Support national palliative care policy advocacy
- Raise awareness about palliative care among public and professional audiences
Goal #2: Catalyze care quality improvement among nonpalliative care audiences
- Educate all health care and health policy audiences about opportunities to improve care for high-need patients and their caregivers
- Train clinicians from all specialties and disciplines in core palliative care skills
- Collaborate on the dissemination of mission-aligned models that improve care for patients with serious illness, and their caregivers
Goal #3: Reduce inequities in the care of people with serious illness
- Raise awareness about inequities that affect patients with serious illness, and make the case for investment in health equity initiatives across all health care and health policy audiences
- Develop technical assistance to scale proven interventions that reduce inequities for patients with serious illness
- Train palliative care clinicians to provide culturally competent, unbiased care
- Activate and convene health equity champions to advance improvements for patients and families facing serious illness
Goal #4: Maintain a high-performing, sustainable organization
- Uphold CAPC’s values in our teamwork, professional collaborations, and communications
- Support palliative care champions to engage their organizational leaders and collaborators
- Support CAPC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee to continuously work toward our DEI goals
- Annually evaluate CAPC content, programming, and resource allocation to align with audience demand and patient need
- Maintain staff connectivity and camaraderie in a virtual office