Improving Advance Care Planning

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.

The Privilege of Palliative Care Social Work

Social worker Nicole Perry, author of our Building Healthy Boundaries eBook, reflects on all she’s learned from patients, families, and palliative care colleagues against the backdrop of serious illness.

Palliative Care and COVID: One Year In

Palliative care experts are hopeful the COVID crisis may be waning, but remain concerned about new variants, scarce healthcare resources, and the long-term effects of moral distress among healthcare workers.

Groups Urge Developing a National Strategy for COVID-Related Grief

As America’s death toll from COVID-19 climbs, experts say the pandemic has transformed the landscape of loss in ways that impact our collective experience of grief -- and that we need a national response.

Advancing Primary Palliative Care

Experts agree expanding primary palliative care is crucial to effectively supporting the growing number of people living with serious illnesses.But getting buy-in from generalist clinicians has been challenging.

Palliative care scholarships awarded to San Diego County health professionals

Sixteen San Diego County healthcare professionals were recently awarded a total of $25,000 in scholarships to cover the full cost of tuition in any of the Institute’s online courses.

Institute launches first Palliative and Serious Illness Certificate course for Physician Assistants

The California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care has launched a new online palliative care certificate program for physician assistants, the first of its kind in the country.

Navigating Medical Cannabis Is Continuing Challenge in Hospice and Palliative Care

Medical cannabis continues to move into the mainstream across the United States, but in many places it’s a therapeutic option that patients with serious illnesses and their families must largely navigate on their own.

Institute offers self-care course at no cost to all health professionals during February

Wishing You Light in the Darkness This Holiday Season and Always

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.

What’s the Path Forward for Advance Care Planning?

Speakers at Virtual Symposium Shine Spotlight on Healthcare Inequities, Telemedicine