Jennifer Moore Ballentine

Last month, I wrote about the exciting direction that the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care will be taking over the next year. I want to share with you now news of a new direction I will be taking as well – as of the end of this month, I will retire from the Institute.

Chances are that whatever your thoughts and reactions are to the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion, its impact on care for people with serious, advanced, or terminal illnesses may not be top of mind. I’m here to say, Watch this space. Definitions of life and the authority to direct its course affect the end of life as much as the beginning.

You’ll be hearing a lot all April about National Health Care Decisions Day (April 16) and the importance of doing your advance care planning and completing your advance medical directives. So here’s my wiki on advance care planning/directives, born of 20 years of study and teaching, giving and taking professional guidance, being a patient and a family member of patients many times over.

What if we extended palliative care even beyond the patient-and-family, even with a loose definition of “family,” and said “patient and their communities” instead?

The Telemedicine Skills for Clinicians course is self-paced, abundant with “clinical pearls” for enhancing telemedicine patient and family visits for any discipline in any setting, along with practical information on billing, documentation, and compliance.

Jennifer Moore Ballentine, MA, executive director, discusses the theme chosen for the 2022 National Symposium and offers a glimpse of what attendees can expect, from plenary speakers to exhibit opportunities and more.

Discussing and documenting your healthcare wishes doesn’t always guarantee you’ll get the kind of care you want, yet there is undeniable value in having those conversations, says our Executive Director Jennifer Moore Ballentine.

On December 21, two things will happen: It is the shortest day so the longest night of the year, and for the first time in 800 years, Jupiter and Saturn will align so closely in their orbits as to form a “double planet” when viewed from Earth.

This month, in line with National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, we are celebrating Faces of Caring.

A week after my first chemo infusion for breast cancer, I woke up feeling like I’d been beaten with sticks. By mid-morning,

By Jennifer Moore Ballentine I had hoped, by this mid-summer moment, that the COVID-19 crisis would be mostly in the rear view

When I wrote a blog on the role of palliative care in the unfolding pandemic on March 11, the U.S. had confirmed

In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems and healthcare professionals are stressed and bracing for or already managing an influx

A letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine made big news at the end of last year: “Home

Today a reporter called me, as someone who has spent time with people who are approaching the ends of their lives or

I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately – not just the usual issues of the difference between leaders and managers, or

Pretty much I hate February, even in this most blessed and gorgeous climate. This past weekend was a double-whammy anniversary. On February

Once upon a time, our family sent out about 200 Christmas cards. Of course, the list was padded by clients and colleagues