Palliative Care Community Resources

Upcoming Events

CAPC National Seminar - Save the Date!

Learn the New Rules for Medicare Billing Online Course

POLST Upcoming Trainings

International Resources

National Council for Palliative Care (UK)

PalliativeDrugs.com

Pediatric Pain Sourcebook

National Resources

Alliance for Care at the End of Life

American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine

American Academy of Pain Management

American College of Physicians

American Hospice Foundation

American Medical Directors Association

American Pain Society

American Society for Pain Management Nursing

American Society on Aging

California Coalition for Compassionate Care (Final Choices)

California Hospice and Palliative Care Association

Calvary Hospital

Center to Advance Palliative Care

Center to Advance Palliative Care

Compassionate Friends

Continuing Medical Education (Pain.com)

Dartmouth Atlas Project

Dying Well

EdeleData (Epidemiology of Dying and End-of-Life Experience)

End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium

EPERC (End of Life/Palliative Educaiton Resource Center)

Ethical Will

George Mark Children's House

Hard Choices

Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care

Healing Environments

Helping After Neonatal Death

Heron Dance

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

Hospice Foundation of America

Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care

International Association for Pain and Chemical Dependency

International Association for the Study of Pain

International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care

International Palliative Wound Care Initiative

Mayday Pain Project

MedAl

Metta Institute

Mind Garden

MISS Foundation

MOM Study

National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care

National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

National Institute for Jewish Hospice

New York's Beth Israel Hospital's Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care

Pain Treatment Topics

Palliative Care Policy Center

PalliMed.org

POLST.org

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care program

Rigpa.org

National Resources (cont.)

Sacred Dying Foundation

Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network

Sounds True

Supportive Care Coalition

The Needs of the Dying

Therapeutic Riding Programs

Today's Caregiver magazine

Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End-of-Life Care (TIME)

Upaya Institute and Zen Center

Other Resources

2010 Palliative Care Conference Handouts

IPCRC.net

JAGS Media Outreach Results

Palliative Care Tools

Palliative Care Data Collection Tool

Publications

2010 AHA Presents Circle of Life Awards

A Guideline for Palliative and End of Life Care

California Coalition for Compassionate Care November Newsletter

Cost Savings Associated With US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs

Creating a Palliative Care Program: Insights from Hospital Leaders

Dr. Russell Portenoy's Presentation 2/12/09

FDA Approves Critical Medication for Pain Relief

Health Affairs Journal

Hospice care helps patients and loved ones

Hospital Palliative Care Program Focus on Long Term Pain Care

Hotline Provides Peer Support For End of Life Patient Care

JAGS Newsletter 7/30/2010

James Hallenbeck, MD

Lung Cancer Patients Lived Longer with Palliative Care in Study

New Analysis Shows Hospitals Continue to Implement Palliative Care Programs at Rapid Pace

Off-Label Therapy Common Among Cancer Patients

Optimizing the Success of a Palliative Care Consult Service: How to Average Over 110 Consults Per Month

Primary Care Clinicians May Actively Direct Hospice Care

Same Disease Different Care: How Patient Health Coverage Drives Treatment Patterns in California

Sharing the Care: The Role of Family in Chronic Illness

Study: Doctors delay communicating end-of-life care issues with terminally ill patients

The Case for Palliative Care

The New England Journal of Medicine: Palliative Care - A Shifting Program

The New Yorker Article: Letting Go

TOPIC on END-OF-LIFE CARE: Who Decides When You Die?

Southern California Resources

Calabasas Counseling and Grief Recovery Center

California Association of Physician Groups

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Palliative Care Services

Citrus Valley Medical Center - Inter-Community Campus

Citrus Valley Medical Center - Queen of the Valley Campus

Community Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Program

Foothill Presbyterian Hospital

Grief Recovery Institute

Lamp Community

Loma Linda University Medical Center Palliative Care Program

Miller Children's Hospital Pediatric Supportive and Palliative Care Service

Motion Picture & Television Fund Palliative Care Service

Northridge Hospital Medical Center Palliative Care Program

PAL-MED Connect Hotline

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

Southern California Chapter of Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)

St. John's Regional Medical Center, Oxnard and St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital, Camarillo

St. Joseph Hospital Inpatient Consultative Palliative Care Program

Torrance Memorial Medical Center

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