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

Managing Gaps in Care: Discipline-Specific Approaches curriculum 🔗 https://ow.ly/vKva50T4o06 All health professionals play a role in improving quality of life for people living with serious illness. Through communication and collaboration, care teams can address gaps in care that lead to unnecessary suffering and poor outcomes. The courses in the Managing Gaps in Care unit are written for medical directors of health plans, case managers from either provider organizations or health plans, and for direct care workers. Each course illustrates techniques these professionals can use to improve quality of life for people living with serious illness and their families by connecting them to needed services and supports. #palliative #hpm #hapc #palliativecare #clinician #medicine #health #healthcare #seriousillness

🚩 List your program on the Palliative Care Provider Directory! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d9ffq_H Finding #palliative care services should be easy and convenient, not only for patients living with a serious illness, and their families, but also for their medical teams. CAPC’s national Palliative Care Provider Directory provides a quick and easy way for patients, families, and referring clinicians to locate and contact palliative care programs in their area. Why get listed? 🔶 Help patients and families find your program. GetPalliativeCare.org is the go-to website for patients and families seeking information about palliative care in all settings. 🔶 Make it easier for referring clinicians to find your program. 🔶 Help map the growing availability of the palliative care specialty nationwide. Specialty palliative care programs in both hospital and community settings can be listed in the Provider Directory on GetPalliativeCare.org. Your program may already be listed on the Directory. If it is, claim your listing and update it. If it’s not, you can add it! Listing your program is free and open to all palliative care programs in the U.S. You do NOT have to be a CAPC member to list your program.

#ThrowbackThursday to the third season of CAPC's Program Spotlight podcast, which started in 2016. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Alexander Gamble, MD, medical director of supportive care at Phelps Health in Rolla, Missouri. Dr. Gamble discusses how he is growing a palliative care team from the ground up, building relationships with referring clinicians, and the challenges of branching out into the rural setting.>> https://ow.ly/ypmw50TX9PW #CAPC25

Reducing Risks for Older Adults >> https://ow.ly/YaCr50TUMYr Did you know it is estimated that delirium goes undiagnosed in more than 50% of cases? This course provides context and best practices for systematically identifying older adults who are at risk for poor outcomes, including falls, delirium, and caregiving challenges when they are admitted to the hospital or surgery center. Learners will gain familiarity with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age-Friendly Health Systems framework, and will use the program’s 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) to practice harm reduction and age-friendly care. Special emphasis is placed on steps to assess for and reduce risks of delirium, and ways to prevent patient harm by addressing polypharmacy and reducing anticholinergic drug burden for the older adult.

🎮 Level up your learning with CAPC Clinical Training Games! Gear up for a whole new level of learning with CAPC's clinical training games. Our interactive games allow you to practice your skills and test your knowledge in virtual settings that simulate real-world clinical encounters. 🔹 A Delirium Whodunit: Understanding the Causes of Delirium 🔹 Deprescribing Escape Room: Reducing Medication-Related Harm Play these games to gain a better understanding of the causes of delirium, understand the risks of overmedication and how to mitigate them, and more.

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 ⤵ 💠 (Last chance!) 1/14: Managing Pain at the Intersection of Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, and Substance Use Disorder Virtual Office Hours ⤵ 🔷 11/4 & 12/10: Achieving Health Equity and Reducing Implicit Bias in Palliative Care 🔷 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

🤔 Do you have the following questions about the 2025 CAPC National Seminar? Visit the FAQs on our website and find the answers to these, and more >> https://ow.ly/Qoq550TqoRT ❔ When will the agenda and speakers be announced? ❔ Is the 2025 CAPC National Seminar open to non-members? ❔ Will there be a poster session? ❔ Will there be an exhibit hall? Keep your eye out for #CAPCSeminar25 updates. Save the date to join us in Philadelphia, September 15-17 for a unique mix of innovative solutions, practical tools, insights on national trends, and vibrant community that only the CAPC Seminar can offer. Registration will open early 2025.

💻 For Leadership: Optimizing CAPC Membership 🔗 https://ow.ly/E9Fx50T6Qih Join us for this small-group consulting call, which is focused on how to maximize engagement in, and realize optimal value from, your CAPC Membership. It is for CAPC Membership Administrators, CAPC Champions, and CAPC Training Leads, as well as anyone utilizing CAPC to reach training and operational goals. Bring your questions, such as: ❔ How do I encourage the use of CAPC training across my organization or health system? ❔ What’s new and upcoming from CAPC? ❔ How do leaders outside of the palliative care service use CAPC resources? ❔ What are some examples of how other members have used CAPC membership? ❔ How can I demonstrate the value of CAPC membership to leadership?

📰 New blog 'From RN to MD: Reflections on Interprofessional Communication from a Palliative Care Physician' by Courtney Wagner, MD 🔗 https://ow.ly/cQCl50TS3vG Dr. Courtney Wagner reflects on her journey from nurse to physician, emphasizing the important role of communication in patient care and team collaboration.