Leadership Skills for Nurses: A Tutorial

An In-Depth Look At Palliative Care And Its Services

Defining palliative care, which patients need it, how it is delivered, and how palliative care differs from hospice.

Introduction to Palliative Care in the Community

Defining community-based palliative care: which patients need it, how it is delivered, and how it differs from inpatient palliative care.

National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care

Home to the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, the Coalition was founded by the leading hospice and palliative care organizations to coordinate and collaborate on issues and activities of importance to the interdisciplinary hospice and palliative care field.

IOM 2014 Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life Report Brief

Building the Business Plan for Your Hospital Program

Building a budget and a business plan for the inpatient program. Includes business planning tools.

Building the Business Plan for Community-Based Palliative Care

Building a budget and a business plan for the community-based program. Includes business planning tools.

The Business Case for Palliative Care: Translating Research Into Program Development in the U.S.

Ten principles that form the basis of the palliative care business model. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2015.

Palliative Care Ensures Value

One-page infographic to introduce your organization leaders, referrers, and health plans to the quality, satisfaction, and utilization improvements resulting from palliative care.

Payment Glossary

Defines key terms in payment vocabulary. Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2017.

Downloadable Tools for Making the Case

These downloadable tools can be used to make the case for palliative care investment with organization leaders, health plans, colleagues, and community partners.

Optimizing Billing Practices

Toolkit with billing and coding best practices for palliative care services delivered in the hospital or the community.

Financing a Palliative Care Program

Toolkit for building a business plan and budget, forming financial partnerships, and operating the program efficiently.

Patient Identification and Assessment

Toolkit for finding the right patients at the right time to address gaps in care.

Population Management and Palliative Care

Improving operations and training clinical staff to identify, stratify, and meet the needs of patients living with serious illness at the population level.

Dementia: Relieving Suffering for Patients and Families

Identifying and addressing the sources of suffering for patients and families living with dementia.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Assessing and addressing sources of suffering for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their caregivers.

Heart Failure

Interventions to reduce suffering along the disease trajectory for people living with congestive heart failure (CHF) and their families.

The American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (ACS TQIP) Palliative Care Best Practices Guidelines

Guidance on palliative care integration with trauma care. American College of Surgeons, 2017.

Strategies for Maximizing the Health/Wellness of Palliative Care Teams

Monograph on processes that promote team health. Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2014.

Clarifying Goals of Care

Strategies for eliciting patient goals and preferences to inform treatment decisions.

Advance Care Planning Conversations

How to initiate and conduct conversations about advance care planning.

Improving Team Performance

Strategic planning for new or veteran programs, and a framework for identification of barriers to team efficiency and team health.

Consult Etiquette: Communicating with Referring Providers

Guidance for palliative care teams to build collaborative relationships with referrers.

National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition

The National Consensus Project (NCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines are the national standard for high quality palliative care. National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, 2018.

The CAPC Guide to Building a Hospital Palliative Care Program

Comprehensive manual on hospital-based palliative care program design. Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2008.

Palliative Care in the Home: A Guide to Program Design (Purchase Link for Non-Members)

Essential reference for starting home-based palliative care, including design principles and profiles of sustainable home-based programs.

Course 1: Comprehensive Pain Assessment

Conducting a comprehensive pain assessment to guide safe and effective treatment.

Supporting the Family Caregiver: The Burden of Serious Illness

Assessing and supporting caregivers of people with serious illness.

Care Coordination

Guidance for all clinicians on improving communication and ensuring smooth transitions of care for patients living with serious illness.

Measurement Best Practices

Use this toolkit to select program measures that demonstrate value to stakeholders and support quality care delivery. Overcome common measurement obstacles and synthesize program data.

Demonstrating Value to Stakeholders

Tools to make the case for palliative care resources and financial partnerships, including: the palliative care evidence base, and downloadable tools for presenting the case.

Quality Measurement and Accountability for Community-Based Serious Illness Care: A Synthesis Report of Convening Findings and Conclusions

Results of a recent convening of experts to define appropriate quality measures for this population.