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Key Topic: Palliative Care

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    Palliative Care

    August 28, 2026

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    California’s Palliative Care Evolution: Celebrating Progress and Shaping the Future

    This resource from Transforming Care Partners describes the key drivers of California’s progress in palliative care and remaining opportunities to build on and accelerate this growth to meet future needs.

    November 13, 2023

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    Evaluating Fiscal Outcomes for Inpatient Palliative Care

    The materials provided here describe how inpatient palliative care services impacts hospital costs and offer guidance on how to conduct analyses that quantify economic outcomes. The audiences for these materials are palliative care program leaders and the health system analysts…

    March 08, 2023

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    Evaluating Fiscal Outcomes for Outpatient Palliative Care

    The materials provided here offer guidance on how to conduct analyses that quantify economic outcomes for established outpatient palliative care clinics and how to estimate the impact of proposed clinics. The audiences for these materials are palliative care program leaders…

    March 08, 2023

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    Making the Case for Outpatient Palliative Care

    Leaders of public hospital outpatient palliative care (OPPC) services often need to make the case to health system clinical and administrative leaders to secure resources needed to sustain, improve, or expand the palliative care service. The materials provided here review…

    August 09, 2022

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    Resources to Support Palliative Care in Public Hospitals

    This collection includes information and tools to help leaders of palliative care programs at public health care systems to sustain and expand inpatient and outpatient services that meet the needs of people with serious illnesses.

    August 09, 2022

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    Making the Case for Inpatient Palliative Care

    Leaders of public hospital inpatient palliative care services (IPPCs) often need to make the case to health system clinical and administrative leaders to secure resources needed to sustain, improve, or expand the palliative care service. The materials provided here review…

    August 09, 2022

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    Standardizing Home-Based Palliative Care: Necessary, Doable, and Fruitful

    How palliative care clinicians and payers in California worked together to reduce unwanted variation and confusion in home-based palliative care.

    June 28, 2022

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    Measuring Impact and Making the Case

    February 01, 2022

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    Key Ingredients

    February 01, 2022

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    Creating the Plan

    Project teams — including palliative care and partner service line staff — should create a plan for implementing the desired behavior changes and for monitoring impact.

    February 01, 2022

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    Implementation of Palliative Care Capabilities Across Services and Settings

    February 01, 2022

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    Participants and Authors

    January 27, 2022

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    Intervention Examples: Project Profiles

    January 27, 2022

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    Resources Required

    January 27, 2022

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