NASHP Webinar: State Policies to Support People with Serious Illness
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is holding a webinar February 22, "State Policies to Support People with Serious Illness."
Palliative care can promote good outcomes and avoid costly and often unwanted treatments for people with serious illness. This webinar will discuss how states can improve access to palliative care and supports for people with serious illness, including:
- Lessons learned from commercial insurers about palliative care value and reimbursement;
- A description about Washington State innovations for rural palliative care from a state leader; and
- New palliative care toolkit and resources available at NASHP.
Speakers include:
- Moderator: Wendy Fox-Grage, Project Director, NASHP
- Rani Snyder, Program Vice President, The John A. Hartford Foundation
- Torrie Fields, Founder and CEO, Votive Health
- Pat Justis, Director, Washington State Office of Rural Health
NASHP has recently released an interactive tracking map of new state palliative care legislative and budget initiatives.
To learn more, click here.
To register, click here.
To go to NASHP's state palliative care legislative and budget initiatives map, click here.
To go to NASHP's Palliative Care Resource Hub, click here.
To learn about JAHF's support, click here.