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Mapping Your Success in Palliative Care

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Map Your Success in Palliative Care

Palliative Care Education for Healthcare Professionals

Enhance Your Skills

Are you working in or interested in palliative care? Would you like to enhance your skills while earn continuing education hours?

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Grow Your Program

Are you looking to build a new palliative care program? Are you planning to expand an existing palliative care program?

Palliative Care for Patients/Loved Ones

Discover Resources

Are you or a loved one facing a long-term or chronic illness? Do you know the benefits of palliative care and where to find help?

About the CSU Institute for Palliative Care

The California State University Institute for Palliative Care is preparing the current and future palliative care workforce while educating the community about the benefits of palliative care. The Institute offers instructor-led and self-paced online learning to individuals living throughout the country and anywhere in the world.

Housed within one of the largest state university systems in the United States, the Institute leverages the strength of CSU’s workforce development infrastructure to deliver evidence-based online and in-person learning to current and future palliative care professionals working in health systems, hospices, skilled nursing facilities, case management and physician practices. The Institute helps organizations and professionals prepare to meet the growing needs of chronically or seriously ill people in all care settings.

Ensuring Palliative Care Success

Palliative Care Experts Coast to Coast

State Associations Collaborating with the Institute

One-day live seminars developed by national palliative care experts: Janet Bull, Jean Acevedo, Torrie Fields, Kathleen Kerr, Brian Cassel, Kathy Brandt, and more, launching now!

Conference Seed Grants

Top Researchers Presenting at Institute

Berman, Ritchie, Casarett and Volandes are Headliners

Faculty are convening Sept 30 - Oct 1 at our palliative care symposium to share classroom and research innovations aimed at reducing suffering of the chronically ill.

Calendar of Events

Here are important announcements about current events at the CSU Institute for Palliative Care.

September 30 – October 1, 2016: Engaging the Next Generation: The First National Symposium on Academic Palliative Care Education and Research - If you are a faculty member engaged in palliative care education and research, this national two-day event is for you! Check out this powerful line up of speakers and presenters. Seating is limited.

October 5, 2016: RN Certificate in Palliative Care – The curriculum provides essential knowledge for professionals who deliver hospice or palliative nursing care in any setting (hospice, inpatient/outpatient palliative care, oncology, long-term care).

October 5, 2016: Advanced Practice RN Certificate in Palliative Care With Optional Fellowship – Fully online, this comprehensive certificate program is designed specifically for busy advanced practice nurses looking for expert skills without a classroom schedule. Participants will gain in-depth knowledge of a broad range of current topics in this growing field.

February 8, 2017: Post-MSW Palliative Care Certificate – This program is for master's prepared social workers who wish to increase their knowledge of palliative care and increase care provided to patients with serious or chronic illnesses.

Click HERE to Learn More About Upcoming Events

Campus Partners

Although people from across the United States and around the world take our online courses in palliative care, the Institute’s roots begin with California State University. In addition to our professional online courses available to anyone, anywhere, we offer local classes and events on palliative care and related topics for community members, students, patients, and loved ones through our participating Campus Partners.

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Featured Blog Posts

Palliative Care in the Community Success ConferenceCSU Institute for Palliative Care Collaborating with Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts on Community-Based Palliative Care Workshop

Seminar Announced – Smooth Sailing: Ensuring Your Community-Based Palliative Care Success

SAN DIEGO, CA – September 27, 2016 https://csupalliativecare.org/. All across America hospices and other organizations are working to build community-based palliative care programs to meet the needs of the community, increase access to quality palliative care, and diversify their revenue. Yet, the challenges are significant. Finding the resources, partners, and skilled staff to establish a sustainable program can be a daunting task. In response to these challenges, the California State University Institute for Palliative Care is collaborating with the Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts to deliver a full-day workshop to address these issues on Tuesday, November 1st during the 2016 HPCFM Education Pre-Conference at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood, MA.

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Making the Case for CBPCMaking the Case for Community-based Palliative Care: Identify the Need and Present the ROI

Guest Contributor: Kathy Brandt

I hear it from administrators and clinicians across the country, “how do I show my CEO/executive team/board that community-based palliative care is worth the investment of time and resources?” The answer… identify the need and present the return on investment that is important to your audience.

Unlike hospital-based palliative care, finding the data to demonstrate the need is hard to come by unless you have access to data through a payer or a health system. However it is possible for providers to utilize publically available data to demonstrate the potential return on investment of a community-based palliative care program.

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Metrics ThumbDemonstrating the Value of Your Community-based Palliative Care Program

Guest Contributor: Kathy Brandt

Most of us working in palliative care and hospice have a passion for the work we do. We believe that the healthcare system places a higher value on efficiencies and cost savings than it does on providing holistic care or improving quality of life for patients and families. Don’t get me wrong, we all know highly compassionate and skilled professionals working in every aspect of healthcare, it is the system itself that is fractured.

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Institute Celebrates Milestones and Bestows Awards

The Sept. 7 ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new headquarters of the California State University Institute for Palliative Care was truly a milestone event.

Ribbon Cutting
Pictured Left to Right: Helen McNeal, Darlene Marcos Shiley, and CSUSM President Karen Haynes.

CSU Institute for Palliative Care Executive Director Helen McNeal reflected on the Institute’s accomplishments in her remarks.

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