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On April 27, 2017, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop on Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Serious Illness Care. The workshop featured presentations and panel discussions exploring community-based palliative care from a population health management perspective as well as a health system perspective; pediatric palliative care, concurrent care, and palliative care within the context of a multispecialty accountable care organization; and the challenges and opportunities to scale and spread successful palliative care models and programs.
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·2018
Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This interdisciplinary care is provided by doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and others who work together with the patient's other doctors to provide a...
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An ad hoc committee will plan, organize, and host a one-day public workshop to examine issues pertaining to integrating palliative care principles into in the delivery of care for people of all ages with serious illness.
The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include:
· Model programs and strategies that integrate palliative care principles into serious illness care delivery
· Best practices of successful integrated palliative care delivery programs
· Factors that influence care delivery models, such as geographic location; ability to mobilize community resources including volunteers; adaptability to high- and low-resource environments; and diverse populations and settings of care
· Evidence base and research needs to support and promote model programs of integrated serious illness care
· Challenges to implementing and scaling model programs, including consideration of current workforce capacity and competencies; evaluation considerations, such as the potential benefits and limitations of quality measurement; and the challenges of aligning incentives and payment with new models of serious illness care
The planning committee will develop the agenda for the workshop session, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussion. An individually-authored workshop proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Collaborators
Sponsors
Aetna (different from the Aetna Foundation)
Altarum Institute
American Academy Of Hospice And Palliative Medicine
American Cancer Society
American Geriatrics Society
Anthem
Ascension Health
Association of Professional Chaplains
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Bristol Myers Squibb
California state university institute for palliative care
Cambia Health Solutions
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
Federation of American Hospitals
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Kaiser Permanente
National Academy of Medicine
National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
National Palliative Care Research Center
National Patient Advocate Foundation
National Quality Forum
New York Academy of Medicine
Oncology Nursing Society
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
Supportive Care Coalition
Susan G. Komen
The Greenwall Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation
Staff
Laurene Graig
Lead
Major units and sub-units
Health and Medicine Division
Lead
Board on Health Care Services
Lead
Board on Health Sciences Policy
Lead
