Needs Assessment: Ensuring Successful Community-Based Palliative Care
What You’ll Learn
- Implement a planning process for developing community-based palliative care services
- Identify stakeholders, and understand how to assess their need for community-based palliative care
- Implement tools to effectively conduct a needs assessment
- Synthesize needs assessment findings to influence community-based palliative care program design
What You’ll Earn
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Tools & Resources
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.
Comprehensive instructions and tools for conducting focus groups during a needs assessment. Published by Community Tool Box.
Comprehensive instructions and tools for conducting interviewing during a needs assessment. Published by Community Tool Box.
Course Directors
Course Faculty
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.
Peer Reviewers
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.
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Provided by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Defining community-based palliative care: which patients need it, how it is delivered, and how it differs from inpatient palliative care.
Designing and implementing an office-based palliative care program, including clinical model and operational considerations.
Translating needs assessment into service design for the community-based palliative care program.