Office-Based Palliative Care Program Design
What You’ll Learn
- Identify the key components of clinic development in terms of planning, mission and vision, core services, structure, and administrative oversight
- Implement a plan to develop an office-based program focusing on population, personnel, capacity, accessibility, and responsibility
- Develop processes for patient-care issues, including palliative care roles, responsibilities, and access, as well as a referral process and follow-up
- Create a process for early data collection at initiation of services
What You’ll Earn
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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.
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.
Tools and technical assistance for developing a palliative care program in a community clinic or office setting.
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.
Evaluating patient need, service requirements, care settings, and stakeholder priorities for the community-based palliative care program.
Translating needs assessment into service design for the community-based palliative care program.