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Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
As serious illness progresses, too many people receive ineffective, unwanted, and expensive medical treatments while their physical, spiritual, and emotional needs are poorly addressed. CHCF invests in projects that promote palliative care, which focuses on improving quality of life and relieving suffering at all stages of serious illness, and communicating patient preferences across care settings.


Publication

Evaluating Fiscal Outcomes for Outpatient Palliative Care

March 2023
J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr
Serious Illness & End-of-Life 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 and the health system analysts who will be conducting analyses.
Publication

Evaluating Fiscal Outcomes for Inpatient Palliative Care

March 2023
J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr
Serious Illness & End-of-Life 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 who will be conducting analyses.
Publication

Making the Case for Inpatient Palliative Care

August 2022
J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr
Serious Illness & End-of-Life 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 useful tactics and tools for making the case and keeping IPPC on the radar of leaders who make resource allocation decisions.
Collection

Resources to Support Palliative Care in Public Hospitals

August 2022
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
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.
Publication

Making the Case for Outpatient Palliative Care

August 2022
J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr
Serious Illness & End-of-Life 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 useful tactics and tools for making the case and for keeping OPPC on the radar of leaders who make resource allocation decisions.
CHCF Blog

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

June 28, 2022
J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr, Kate Meyers, Judy Thomas
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
How palliative care clinicians and payers in California worked together to reduce unwanted variation and confusion in home-based palliative care.
Resource

Essential Skills and Supports for All Clinicians Treating Serious Illness

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
All people with serious illness should have access to palliative care, beginning early in their illness and delivered in conjunction with disease-oriented treatments. To successfully address these needs, all clinicians who treat people with serious illness should have the knowledge and skills to provide first-line palliative care, including basic management of pain and symptoms and discussions about prognosis and goals of care.
Resource

Essential Elements of Medi-Cal Palliative Care Services

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
This set of tips and tools for Medi-Cal managed care plans and palliative care providers reflects the expertise and approaches of plan-provider partners around the state, and can be used to strengthen these organizations’ collaborative approach to caring for people with serious illnesses.
Publication

2020 Edition — Long-Term and End-of-Life Care in California

June 2020
Jen Joynt
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
This Almanac report describes the state’s supply and use of long-term care services, Medicare and Medi-Cal spending on services, and quality of care.
Publication

Home on the Range: Plans and Providers Team Up to Bring Palliative Care to Rural Californians

May 2020
Kathleen Kerr, Monique Parrish, Lyn Ceronsky
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
As the demand for palliative care has expanded into California’s immense and disparate rural areas, health plans and providers have faced unique challenges. This report describes key lessons from the CHCF rural palliative care initiative, which are intended to help health plans and providers understand the challenges and consider possible solutions to support delivery of palliative care in rural areas.
CHCF Blog

California Mobilizes for a Health Care Surge

March 30, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal, Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care, Telehealth, Workforce
Stories That Caught Our Attention: California is adopting policies related to health care coverage, workforce, telehealth, and palliative care to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publication

COVID-19 Resources: Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care

March 2020
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
These resources are for health care providers and leaders concerned about serious illness and end-of-life care in this new era of COVID-19. We're updating this page regularly.
CHCF Blog

Finding the Right Words About COVID-19

March 26, 2020
Kate Meyers
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
Health care professionals are facing conversations that they never expected — or wanted — to have.
CHCF Blog

The Role of Palliative Care in a COVID-19 Pandemic

March 20, 2020
Jennifer Moore Ballentine
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care, Workforce
Applying the unique skills and strengths found in palliative care must be part of the response to the novel coronavirus.
CHCF Blog

You’ve Got to Hear This: Funding a New Health Policy Podcast

January 16, 2020
Steven Birenbaum, Jordan Reese
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care, Maternal Health
If it seems like everyone you know is recommending that you listen to their favorite podcast, you’re not alone.
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