Building a Program from the Ground Up
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Release Date: 07/08/2019
Expanding Access to Palliative Care within a Rural Health System
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
In this episode, we hear from Dr. Patricia Fogelman, DNP, who leads the palliative care program at Guthrie Clinic, a rural integrated health system located in north central Pennsylvania and upstate New York. We learn about the many ways she’s proving the value of palliative care by engaging within and outside of her institution, creatively finding solutions to showcase what high-quality palliative care looks like. We also learn how the pandemic allowed for increased palliative care visibility.
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How Research Informed a Home-Based Palliative Care Program from the Start
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
In this episode, we hear from Drs. Robert Friedman and Kate Tindall of Austin Palliative Care in Texas about their journey in establishing a home-based palliative care program. They discuss the challenges of designing their program, and how they used years of strategic research to identify their patient population, understand the unique needs in their city, and ultimately drive referrals.
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Building a Systemwide Palliative Care Collaborative
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Dr. Jessica Israel, senior vice president of geriatrics and palliative care at RWJ Barnabus Health in New Jersey, shares how she built a palliative care service line across the largest academic health care system in the state. She discusses how her communication skills expertise set the stage to achieve systemwide collaboration, and how she purposefully sought to unify, improve, and streamline the teams and processes, while allowing each site to retain its own personality and structure.
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A Program Leader's Journey from Despair to Success
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Dr. Chin-Lin Ching, medical director of palliative care at Highland Hospital, joins her mentor, Dr. Diane E. Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care for an interview. Dr. Ching shares how she turned around her program, which was considered successful on paper, but unsustainable due to strains on staffing — causing her team to feel overwhelmed and burnt out. Instead of walking away, Dr. Ching took steps to overcome her feelings of despair.
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Teachable Moments: Proving the Value of Palliative Care
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Dr. Diana Martins-Welch, Palliative Care Physician at Northwell Health Long Island, discusses how she built the outpatient palliative care practice as part of the center’s cancer institute. She shares observations about growing from a sole provider to a small team, achieving earlier referrals from her oncology colleagues, and expanding the team’s visibility to support more patients.
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Building a Program from the Ground Up
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Dr. Kathy Selvaggi, Director of the Butler Health System Palliative Care Program, steps into the program spotlight to discuss how she helped build a palliative care program from scratch beginning in 2015.
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Music and Memory: Improving Alzheimer's and Dementia Care
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Music and Memory: Improving Alzheimer's and Dementia Care by Center to Advance Palliative Care
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Marketing Your Palliative Care Team
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
This episode of the Palliative Care Program Spotlight features a phone interview with Chautauqua Hospice & Palliative Care in Lakewood, NY. The conversation includes a discussion on how to find the right palliative care staff as well as a fascinating look at the team's investment into radio and print marketing which is showing real results.
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Facing the Challenge of Budget Barriers
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
What happens when your palliative care program's budget is cut significantly? How do you evolve and survive when your institution isn't providing the support you need to meet patients in need? This episode of the Palliative Care Program Spotlight tries to tackle these very questions.
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Showing Your Program's Value and Return on Investment
CAPC Palliative Care Program Spotlight
Dr. Stephanie Houck heads up the palliative care program at UT Southwestern Medicine. In this episode, she discusses proving her program's value through data and metrics in the face of a potentially changing funding program. Dr. Houck also discusses promoting palliative care and it’s expansion into additional hospital settings, including the emergency department, oncology, intensive care and ambulatory care units.
info_outlineDr. Kathy Selvaggi, Director of the Butler Health System Palliative Care Program, steps into the program spotlight to discuss how she helped build a palliative care program from scratch beginning in 2015. In this episode, Dr. Selvaggi shares how being direct and transparent with institutional leaders, her staff, and partners in the community is the key ingredient to her program's continued success. She also talks about the importance of marketing the program in the community and details how and why she transitioned from oncology to palliative care.