What You’ll Learn

  1. Implement a planning process for developing community-based palliative care services
  2. Identify stakeholders, and understand how to assess their need for community-based palliative care
  3. Implement tools to effectively conduct a needs assessment
  4. Synthesize needs assessment findings to influence community-based palliative care program design

What You’ll Earn

Only CAPC members who are logged in can earn the following free Continuing Education Credits:

  • Medicine: 0.75 CME

To take this course, log in. Or, check here to see if your organization is a member.

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Tools & Resources

Community-Based Palliative Care Needs Assessment and Decision-Making Tool
MEMBERS ONLY locked

Step-by-step tool to evaluate patient need, stakeholder priorities, organizational readiness, and sites of care for a new or growing community-based palliative care service.

Community Toolbox: Conducting Focus Groups

Comprehensive instructions and tools for conducting focus groups during a needs assessment. Published by Community Tool Box.

Conducting Interviews

Comprehensive instructions and tools for conducting interviewing during a needs assessment. Published by Community Tool Box.

Andrew E. Esch, MD, MBA. Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care.

Philip Higgins, PhD, LICSW. President Lighthouse Counseling of Salem, Inc.

Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA. President and CEO Spragens & Associates, LLC.

Jay R. Horton, PhD, ACHPN, FNP-BC, MPH, CENP. Director of Nursing Safety, Quality, and Performance Improvement Mount Sinai Hospital. Assistant Professor Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Sivan Ben-Moshe, MD. Fellow, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Sachin Kale, MD. Fellow, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Katie Wang, MD. Fellow, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Contact information: For answers to frequently asked questions about CAPC courses, read the Online Course FAQ. For technical questions about course activity, email [email protected]. For questions about continuing education credits, contact 201-957-0077.

Provided by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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