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

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.

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday pulls from CAPC’s ‘My Palliative Care Moment’ video series on YouTube in 2015. Watch Janice Connolly, MD, share why she chose palliative care as a career. You can find more content like this on our YouTube >> https://ow.ly/7fV050TBHtA #CAPC25

Enroll Your Team in 2024 PCLC Training and Mentoring >> https://ow.ly/Q3Jb50Qubn3 Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (PCLC) training and a full year of mentoring can help your team achieve program growth and sustainability, and the best quality and highest value patient care. Virtual and in-person training options are available for programs of every setting, stage, and size. Space is limited. You must be a team of two or more to attend. If you are interested in training with a PCLC, contact the PCLC of your choice to discuss availability and obtain an application.

💻 Interprofessional Grand Rounds 'Why Do We Always Want to See a Zebra? Normalizing Emotional Coping in Serious Illness' with Vickie Leff and David Buxton MD FAPA, DFAACAP, FAAHPM on Wednesday, November 20 🔗 https://ow.ly/sR2E50TQU3Z When diagnosed with a serious illness, most people experience some form of distress. As palliative care clinicians who support the emotional health of patients, it is important to think about our expectations and what we consider a normal reaction—in addition to looking for the “zebra” (the anomaly). The coping and defense mechanisms people use can help protect their inner and outer selves from anxiety, fear, anger, and other emotions that come naturally. We cannot fix someone’s emotional pain. Our expectations of what is “normal” may prevent or even pathologize useful coping from patients. In this Interprofessional Grand Rounds session, we will review anticipated emotional reactions to diagnoses and life with a serious illness, and the essential role defense mechanisms play in mitigating harm. Speakers will increase attendees’ capacity to recognize their own reactions that may cause them to rush to address and fix patients’ emotional reactions, and teach them how to witness, hold, and validate normal distress instead. Finally, the speakers will provide a framework to better identify when it is necessary to refer to team members, specialists, or even emergency personnel. In this form, we can support healthy coping among our patients.