CAPC Announces The Winners of The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge
Innovative in-home palliative care for rural underserved populations and texting to find the Tipping Point are two of twelve winners announced by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) in the second round of The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge.
The goal of this second round of The Challenge is to catalyze innovation that will make positive, breakthrough change in the care of serious illness. Open to all health care organizations, settings, disciplines, and specialties across the US, more than 100 initiatives were submitted, including those from hospitals, health systems, clinics, and payers. Each submission was rigorously peer-reviewed by an expert panel and evaluated using five criteria: Impact, Evidence-Base, Feasibility, Scalability, and Sustainability. Awards were given for initiatives already implemented as well as for those in the planning stage.
“To care for the millions of people living with serious illness in this country, all medical specialties and disciplines must be able to provide effective communication, and pain and symptom management, to those who may not require specialist-level palliative care,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman. “It is not enough to have a palliative care team in place. We must also be able to identify and reach those patients in need. The Challenge is helping us to reach this tipping point of change in US healthcare.”
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