Locations & Training
Choose the Palliative Care Leadership Center that’s right for you. Whatever your setting or stage of program development and growth, there′s a PCLC to address your specific needs.
The Pallative Care Leadership Centers™—selected via a highly competitive evaluation process—are located at major institutions nationwide. Each meets the highest standards of clinical excellence, outstanding leadership, reputation, and experience. Each relies on CAPC’s proprietary tools and proven training methods. And each offers a unique experience for palliative care programs of every setting, size, and stage.
How do you choose? Most attendees base their decision on a variety of factors, including care setting, geographic location, and curriculum focus.
Note that some PCLCs offer a virtual option. Please discuss this when you speak with the PCLC of your choice.
Locations
An early adopter and national leader in delivering quality hospice services, Bluegrass is a pioneer in developing new program models that respond to the evolving needs of seriously ill patients and their families. It also has a rich history of exploring models that are both high quality and financially sustainable. . . .
Mount Carmel was one of the first PCLCs and has trained over 175 teams. Its hospice services and palliative care services are provided in acute palliative care units, consultatively across all hospitals, and in the community, from private residences to long-term care facilities and more . . .
The largest integrated health system in New York State, based on patient revenue, and the 14th-largest health care system in the United States. Inpatient palliative care teams, outpatient practices, and post-acute services are fully integrated to deliver care across the system . . .
A not-for-profit health care system with a focus on community-based palliative care. In addition to its nine hospitals, Presbyterian’s system includes a multi-specialty medical group and a statewide health plan. The system is also known nationally for integrating health care financing and delivery . . .
UAB’s Palliative Care Services includes a Palliative and Comfort Care Unit and a robust consult service within the 1,200+ bed tertiary care academic hospital, along with community-based palliative care that includes a stand-alone Supportive Care Clinic, telehealth, and home-based services. UAB’s Palliative Care faculty also care for patients within the Birmingham VA Hospital and Children’s of Alabama Hospital.
Multiple large palliative care inpatient consult services, an inpatient hospice service, and outpatient clinics (cancer and non-cancer) in an academic medical center and a comprehensive cancer center. UCSF specializes in interprofessional adult and pediatric palliative care services across inpatient, outpatient, and assisted living settings.
UVA’s extensive palliative care program includes an office based palliative care clinic associated with an inpatient consultation service, as well as home and inpatient hospices. It has a large outpatient service embedded in both the oncology and heart-failure clinics. It is also a leader in EMR integration. . . .
A safety-net hospital and Level 1 trauma center with palliative care education, research, and clinical services, including a palliative care unit, consultation service, outpatient supportive care clinic, and hospice. The inpatient consultative service provides care for all emergency and hospitalized patients. The inpatient palliative care unit provides family-centered specialty palliative care by a dedicated inter-disciplinary team of physicians, advance practice nurses, social worker, chaplain, nurses, and others...