Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

🌟EXCITING NEWS! The CAPC National Seminar will return in 2025! Join us in Philadelphia, September 15-17, for the unique mix of innovative solutions, practical tools, insights on national trends, and vibrant community that only the CAPC Seminar can offer. Save the date: registration will open early 2025 >> https://ow.ly/hyoT50Tk3xu 👁️🗨️ Areas of Focus - Building and leveraging the interprofessional team - Billing and program financing strategies - Using data to demonstrate value and secure resources - Strategies to cope with high volumes - Optimizing referral relationships - Clinical training initiatives to improve patient outcomes - Palliative care workforce well-being - Leading healthy teams - Insights on the health care landscape: policy, payment, workforce, and technology - Equitable access and care delivery for patients with serious illness The Seminar is open to all, but CAPC members will receive discounted registration. #CAPCSeminar25 #hapc

💻 Interprofessional Grand Rounds 'Providing Culturally Centered Care for Indigenous People of North America' on Tuesday, October 15 🔗 https://ow.ly/zUKG50ToASm Indigenous People of North America (IPNA) living with serious illness and their families have unmet needs within our health care system. It can be challenging to provide culturally centered care when clinicians have gaps in knowledge. Within IPNA communities, numerous disparities impact social determinants of health. Often, there are complexities in navigating the Indian Health Service and Tribal 638 programs, including understanding how they intersect with mainstream health care in rural and urban areas. However, there are cultural communication strategies for approaching topics of a serious nature to facilitate these conversations and overcome these complexities. In this Interprofessional Grand Rounds, the presenters empower attendees with the knowledge and resources they need to provide a culturally centered approach when caring for this population.

Take the courses in the Preventing Crises Through Whole Patient Care curriculum, and learn techniques for averting crises and improving outcomes through understanding and addressing patients’ real-world challenges. CAPC members can take these courses and earn free continuing education credits and ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits for physicians. COURSES 🔹Reducing Risks for Older Adults 🔗 http://ow.ly/Lfyo50J3bqP Context and best practices for identifying older adults at risk for poor outcomes, including falls, delirium, and caregiving challenges. 🔹 Care Coordination 🔗 http://ow.ly/GhPy50J3bqO Guidance for all clinicians on improving communication and ensuring smooth transitions of care for patients living with serious illness. 🔹 Supporting the Family Caregiver: The Burden of Serious Illness 🔗 http://ow.ly/p67k50J3bqQ Techniques to assess and support caregivers of people with serious illness. #palliative #hpm #hapc #palliativecare #clinician #medicine #health #healthcare #seriousillness #delirium #caregiver #caregiving

Symptom Management curriculum 🔗 https://ow.ly/wwkp50To9Ep Expert management of common sources of distress—dyspnea, nausea, constipation, depression, and anxiety—can improve quality of life and prevent avoidable crises for patients living with serious illness. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of experts, the five courses in our Symptom Management curriculum provide techniques to assess and manage these symptoms. Get started! #palliative #hpm #hapc #palliativecare #clinician #medicine #health #healthcare #seriousillness #dyspnea #nausea #constipation #depression #anxiety

🤍 Emotional PPE Toolkit → https://lnkd.in/euvqMMhk Provides resources that clinicians and teams can use to support well-being. Most resources in this toolkit are open to all. What's in the toolkit? 🔹 Whether you have 5 minutes or 60 minutes, there are tools, activities, videos, and practices to help bridge the gap if you are struggling 🔹 Team wellness planning resources to cultivate safety for your team and advocate for change 🔹 Articles and research on Emotional PPE 🔹 Relevant CAPC events #palliative #hpm #hapc #palliativecare #clinician #medicine #health #healthcare #seriousillness #emotionalppe #burnout #wellness

CAPC members are a vibrant, collaborative group of health care professionals at more than 1,800 health care organizations.   You may already be part of a CAPC member organization. It’s easy to confirm. Simply go to the CAPC website, and if your organization is a member, create an account to start taking advantage of the benefits such as: 🔷 Clinical training courses in communication skills, symptom management, chronic pain strategies, and more, offering free CEs for all specialties and disciplines (including nonpalliative care specialists) and ABIM MOC credits for physicians 🔷 Expert-led virtual events on hot topics 🔷 Curated tools and technical assistance 🔷 And much more We have so much in store for our members. Create your account now so you don't miss out! #palliative #hpm #hapc #palliativecare #clinician #medicine #health #healthcare #seriousillness

Mark your calendar for CAPC's upcoming virtual events ➡ https://ow.ly/Q0L250SNjxq Access CAPC’s faculty of national experts through new Workshops, the latest Briefing, and upcoming Virtual Office Hours and Webinars. Additionally, save the date for the CAPC National Seminar 2025! Briefing ⤵ ⭐ 12/10: America’s Readiness to Meet the Needs of People with Serious Illness: The 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard Webinars ⤵ 🔶 11/14: How to Support and Empower Caregivers of People Living with Dementia Workshops ⤵ 💠 12/5 & 1/14: Managing Pain at the Intersection of Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, and Substance Use Disorder Virtual Office Hours ⤵ 🔷 10/11, 11/4 & 12/11: Achieving Health Equity and Reducing Implicit Bias in Palliative Care 🔷 10/7, 11/15, 11/21, 12/16 & 12/19: Breaking Point: Debriefing to Address the Challenges of Our Work 🔷 11/5 & 1/15: How to Hold Well-Being Debriefings at Your Organization #Palliative #hpm #hapc #PalliativeCare #Clinician #Medicine #Health #Healthcare #SeriousIllness #Events #Webinar #workshops

#ThrowbackThursday to the fourth season of CAPC's Program Spotlight podcast, which started in 2016. In episode 4, Reducing Hospital Readmissions through Palliative Care, Bob Bergamini, MD, of Mercy Palliative Care Services in St. Louis, shares how his palliative care program has helped to reduce readmission rates for his organization >> https://ow.ly/LtV050T3omI Listen to exclusive interviews with palliative care program leaders across all settings who have overcome challenges in the areas of program financing, program growth, leadership, and more. #CAPC25

💻 BRIEFING: America’s Readiness to Meet the Needs of People with Serious Illness: The 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZzwmqS At least 13 million Americans are living with a serious illness like cancer, heart failure, or dementia. While much progress has been made to improve access to palliative care and other key health care supports for this population, significant gaps remain. Join Brynn Bowman, MPA, and the CAPC Health Care Transformation team as they unveil the 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard: A State-By-State Look at Palliative Care Capacity. Together, they will review each state’s readiness and capacity to meet the needs of people living with a serious illness, and their families and caregivers. This briefing will highlight national trends and provide practical, actionable recommendations for state policymakers, palliative care champions, and advocates to improve care within their own state or organization.

Massage therapists have the potential to bring a ton of unique value to your palliative care team and your patients. Tenured massage therapist, Cal Cates, shares the benefits of massage therapy-and offers 5 practical steps for integrating this discipline in palliative care teams in the newest CAPC article, “All About Massage Therapy and How it Fits Into Palliative Care.” Cates breaks down 5 ways to integrate a massage therapist into your team, including: ✔ Make the case to leadership ✔ Secure funding for a massage therapist to join your team ✔ Plan to have the massage therapist on site regularly ✔ Recruit a massage therapist ✔ Integrate the massage therapist into your team