New York, NY (May 23, 2024) – The “Clinical Training” category of CAPC’s third John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge invited CAPC members to achieve as many course completions as possible from November 2022 through October 2023. This national Challenge, sponsored by CAPC and The John A. Hartford Foundation, was the culmination of CAPC’s five-year campaign aimed at creating a tipping point in the improvement of care delivered to millions of Americans living with a serious illness.
Over 1,700 organizations participated in the competition, fifteen organizations won, and another forty-seven made the Honor Roll. In total, over 31,000 clinicians enhanced their training by completing 195,000 courses. This year-long national clinical training Challenge helped health care organizations expand on their ability to care for patients living with serious illness by developing skills in communication, pain management, and symptom management. This way, clinicians from all medical specialities and disciplines are prepared to work with this patient population, and their families.
Read some of the winners’ stories below…
We recognize that advanced care planning and goals of care conversations play a crucial role in the care of our patients. The Tipping Point Challenge allowed providers within our organization to educate themselves on this topic. We wanted them to have access to palliative care training that was easy to access, and provided the most up-to-date clinical information that was relevant to their practice. Many of our providers have earned CAPC designations in areas that are relevant to the population that we serve. Completing the CAPC curriculum is now a standard expectation in our organization; it is built into new hire orientation and adoption is a key performance metric for all providers for annual reviews.
Flora Petillo, Genesis Physician Services, Tipping Point Challenge Winner
We wanted to improve the quality of training around palliative care within our organization, and CAPC and the Tipping Point Challenge really helped us achieve this. With leadership buy-in early-on in the competition, we were able to encourage staff to take CAPC courses as possible, as it is an integral part of obtaining skills for the patients we all care for. We used a strategic approach to disseminate a suite of high-yield CAPC courses across our interdisciplinary teams, by designating trainers across each discipline (especially physician, nursing, and social work). They assigned the courses and ensured they were completed by the interdisciplinary team members. We collected feedback on which courses staff felt were most helpful/high-yield and selected them to be taken by new staff during their onboarding.
Alice Mao, MD, On Lok PACE, Tipping Point Challenge Winner
Moffitt Cancer Center’s departments of supportive care medicine and nursing professional development provide formal training system-wide, in order to enhance goal-concordant care. This helped us achieve success in the Tipping Point Challenge, while maintaining an Age-Friendly Health System. Aligning with this focus, our multidisciplinary team improved and expanded palliative care education, and the training of our clinical team members to positively affect patient outcomes and quality of life. Senior leadership backed this effort by ensuring access to CAPC for staff. Members of the multidisciplinary team motivated others to take courses through programs, committee meeting announcements, flyers, and emails. Lastly, nursing, social work, and chaplaincy care implemented the completion of CAPC modules as part of mandatory orientation.
Our participation in the Tipping Point Challenge aided in bridging gaps in the care of Moffitt’s older adult, young adult, and adolecesent patient populations. It also helped increase awareness of CAPC’s palliative care educational resources system-wide, enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration and recognition of aligning efforts.
Chelsey Labadie, MSN, RN, CHPN, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tipping Point Challenge Winner
The palliative care service here at Lincoln has a fellowship program, and also routinely educates rotating medical students and residents. We have developed a curriculum which utilizes CAPC educational modules to spread the word about palliative care. Our fellows utilize the fantastic resources on a regular basis to grow their education. We highly encourage rotators to utilize courses and resources as well to better learn about palliative care and pain management.
Natasha Suleman, MD, Lincoln Health and Hospitals, New York City Tipping Point Challenge Winner
Our team achieved success by implementing various strategies, including but not limited to driving awareness about the benefits of professional development within our organization, engaging learners to actively participate, establishing a feedback mechanism that motivated and encouraged participants to share their thoughts, and incentivizing and recognizing learners by validating their efforts through quarterly prizes and a grand prize. We also incorporated CAPC training into our nurse residency program, palliative care orientation and continuing education initiatives, and care coordination (social workers, case managers, transition coordinators).
Yusimi Sobrino-Bonilla, APN, The Valley Hospital, Tipping Point Challenge Winner
We have held institutional membership with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) for many years, which hospital leadership was instrumental in attaining. Throughout this time, our palliative care service has effectively advocated for the integration and utilization of this tremendous educational resource, which includes interactive courses on communication, delivering serious news, symptom assessment, and management for seriously ill patients, prognostication, disease trajectory, spiritual, and psychosocial care of patients, among many other resources. Our medical school and many of our residency/fellowship program directors have integrated these courses into their curriculum. We have furthermore been able to get buy-in from other departments and services, including the hospitalist service, care management, spiritual care department, and nursing leadership.
This educational resource has truly played an important role in our mission to educate our trainees, faculty, and staff on palliative care and the provision of quality care for the seriously ill. Additionally, other departments, services, and program directors have incorporated CAPC courses into their orientation or onboarding curriculum, and in situations specifically related to caring for patients with serious illness.
Grace LaTorre DO, MS, FACP, Stony Brook Medicine, Tipping Point Challenge Winner
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need.
CAPC is funded through organizational membership and the generous support of foundations and private philanthropy. It is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City. www.capc.org
About the Tipping Point Challenge
The Tipping Point Challenge is a national competition aimed at creating a tipping point of change in the improvement of care delivered to millions of Americans living with a serious illness. The goal of the first Tipping Point Challenge was to help health care organizations expand the ability to enhance skills among clinicians in all medical specialties and disciplines treating serious illness. Meet the Challenge at https://tippingpointchallenge.capc.org/
New York, NY (February 28, 2024)—Developing community emergency awareness for pediatric patients, reducing readmission rates to ‘single digits,’ and assisting rural health systems and communities to integrate palliative care are the winning initiatives announced today in the “Innovation” category of the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s (CAPC) third national The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge.
The initial round of awards in the “Clinical Training” category was announced on February 7. The Challenge was the culmination of CAPC’s five-year campaign aimed at creating a tipping point in the improvement of care delivered to millions of people living with a serious illness.
The goal of the Innovation Challenge was to catalyze innovation that has made positive, breakthrough change in the care of serious illness. Open to all health care organizations across the U.S., nearly 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 six criteria: Impact, Outcomes, Equity, Feasibility, Scalability, and Sustainability. There are three winners (one gold, two silver), and four finalists.
“We were thrilled to see such innovative work happening across the country to bring access to person-centered, high-quality care to patients with serious illness, and their families,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman. “CAPC is committed to spotlighting these innovations and supporting other health care innovators to learn from, and implement, new strategies to improve care quality.”
The winners are:
GOLD
Initiative: Operation Single Digits
Submitted by: Prospect Medical Holdings – Coordinated Regional Care (CRC), RI in Johnston, Rhode Island
SILVER
Initiative: Changing Palliative Care for Medically Complex Patients
Submitted by: Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska
SILVER
Initiative: Washington Rural Palliative Care Initiative – A Statewide Learning Community
Submitted by: Washington State Department of Health in Tumwater, Washington
“This year’s Tipping Point Challenge winners exemplify the power of creativity and collaboration in helping people across the lifespan live well with serious illness,” said Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. “We congratulate each of the winners and thank all of the entrants for innovatively delivering high-quality, age-friendly serious illness care.”
To arrange an interview, please contact John Zoccola at [email protected] or 267-664-2759.
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality, equitable health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. For more information, visit capc.org and tippingpointchallenge.capc.org for more information, and follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three areas of emphasis: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
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New York, NY (February 7, 2024)—The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has proudly announced the winners in the “Clinical Training” category of its third Tipping Point Challenge. This national Challenge, sponsored by CAPC and The John A. Hartford Foundation, was the culmination of CAPC’s five-year campaign aimed at creating a tipping point in the improvement of care delivered to millions of Americans living with a serious illness.
The goal of the year-long clinical training Challenge was to help health care organizations expand the ability to effectively care for seriously ill patients by enhancing skills among clinicians—from all medical specialties and disciplines—working with this patient population. These include communication, pain management, and symptom management skills directed at the complex needs of people living with serious illness.
Out of 1,700 competing health care organizations, 15 organizations won, and 47 made the Honor Roll. View the winners and Honor Roll at https://tippingpointchallenge.capc.org/winners-finalists/.
“I am proud that our The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge provided a catalyst for clinicians from all specialties and disciplines to enhance their skills through CAPC courses,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman, MPA. The enthusiasm of health care organizations across the country to rapidly enhance skills that are not usually the focus of training in medical school, is a testament to the extraordinary need to improve the quality of care provided to people living with a serious illness. CAPC is honored to play a part in the achievement of better outcomes for patients, families, and caregivers.”
Winners in the Clinical Training category are:
Aetna Compassionate Care Program
Ascension Living Communities
Bluegrass Care Navigators
Emory Palliative Care Center
Genesis Physician Services
HCSC
Landmark Health
MercyOne Clinton Medical Center
Moffitt Cancer Center
NYC Health + Hospitals | Coler
ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital
Stony Brook University Hospital
The Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center at UT Southwestern
The Valley Hospital
Waldo County General Hospital
“We congratulate each of the Tipping Point Challenge winners for their innovative and groundbreaking approaches to ensuring that older adults and others living with serious illness have access to the highest quality health care,” said Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. “Because of their exceptional work, patients and families will experience improved interactions with better-trained health care providers, resulting in better quality of life.”
Winners in CAPC’s Tipping Point Challenge “Innovation” category will be announced at the end of February.
To arrange an interview, please contact John Zoccola at [email protected] or 267-664-2759.
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality, equitable health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. For more information, visit capc.org and tippingpointchallenge.capc.org for more information, and follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three areas of emphasis: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
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New York, NY (February 7, 2024)—The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has proudly announced the winners in its New York City Tipping Point Challenge.
This year-long Challenge, sponsored by CAPC and The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, was the culmination of CAPC’s five-year campaign designed to creating a tipping point in the improvement of care delivered to people living with a serious illness. The New York City-based competition was part of CAPC’s third National Tipping Point Challenge funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation.
The goal of this clinical training Challenge was to help health care organizations in NYC expand the ability to effectively care for seriously ill patients by enhancing skills among clinicians—from all medical specialties and disciplines—working with this patient population. These include communication, pain management, and symptom management skills directed at the complex needs of people living with serious illness. View the winners and Honor Roll at https://tippingpointchallenge.capc.org/winners-finalists/.
“I am proud that our New York City Tipping Point Challenge provided a catalyst for clinicians to enhance their clinical skills through CAPC courses,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman, MPA. “The competition aimed to achieve better outcomes for patients, families, and caregivers in our hometown.”
Winners in the New York City Tipping Point Challenge are:
Cityblock Medical Practice
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
NYC Health + Hospitals | McKinney
The Mount Sinai Hospital
VNS Health
Organizations that made the New York City Honor Roll include:
Calvary Hospice
Montefiore Hospital – Moses Campus
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Northwell At Home
NYC H+H Health and Home Care
NYC Health + Hospitals | Harlem
NYC Health + Hospitals | Lincoln
NYC Health + Hospitals | South Brooklyn Health, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital
NYU Langone Tisch Hospital
Additionally, two NYC-based organizations were winners in the National Tipping Point Challenge for most CAPC courses completed since becoming a CAPC member: NYC Health + Hospitals | Coler and Stony Brook University Hospital.
“We are thrilled that so many clinicians and organizations across New York City participated in the New York City Tipping Point Challenge,” said Lauren Green Weisenfeld, deputy director of the Healthy Aging Program at The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. “Now many clinicians across NYC are equipped to integrate their new palliative care skills into daily practice to enhance patient and family care.”
To arrange an interview, please contact John Zoccola at [email protected] or 267-664-2759.
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality, equitable health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. For more information, visit capc.org and tippingpointchallenge.capc.org for more information, and follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The mission of the Samuels Foundation’s Healthy Aging Program is to improve the health care and overall quality of life for New York City’s older adults. For more information, visit samuels.org.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three areas of emphasis: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
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New York, NY (September 18, 2023)—The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is excited to announce forty-three front-runners in the Clinical Training category of the third The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge. This clinical training competition was established to catalyze the spread of skills and improve health care delivery for all people living with a serious illness.
The front-runners are currently competing with other CAPC member organizations to achieve the greatest number of CAPC course completions within the timeframe of the competition, and/or since becoming a member organization.
Until the end of October, there is time for other organizations to catch up to the front-runners. Winners will be announced in February 2024.
“The progress that we’ve seen so far with our third John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge is incredible, with clinicians across specialties enhancing their skills in communication, pain management, symptom management, and more. We’re thrilled to see the healthy competition between CAPC member organizations, knowing that each course completed means skills developed—ultimately improving quality of life for patients and their families. We are so grateful for the help and support of our partner, The John A. Hartford Foundation,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman, MPA.
“These front-runners are showing their commitment to continuous learning and quality improvement so that all older adults with serious illness receive high-quality, age-friendly care,” said Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. “We applaud their effort, wish them luck in the ongoing competition, and encourage all organizations to take advantage of the gold-standard learning opportunities offered by the Center to Advance Palliative Care.”
The front-runner organizations include:
Aetna Compassionate Care Program
Ascension Living Communities
Ascension St. Vincent’s Blount
Bluegrass Care Navigators
Bristol Advanced Illness Management
CareMore/Aspire
Compassus
Emory Palliative Care Center
Exeter Hospital
Genesis Physician Services
HCSC
Highmark, Inc.
Hospice of the Western Reserve
Iowa City VA Medical Center
John Dempsey Hospital UConn Health
Kaiser Permanente Oregon/SW Washington
Landmark Health
LincolnHealth – Miles Campus Hospital
LiveWellChoice, LLC
Main Line Health Hospice
Memorial Hermann Physician Network
MercyOne Clinton Medical Center
Midland Memorial Hospital
Moffitt Cancer Center
Mount Carmel Grove City
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler
NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney
On Lok PACE
Optum Complex Care Management
ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital
Providence Mount Carmel Hospital
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick
Samaritan Hospital
St. Mary’s Hospital – Athens
Stony Brook University Hospital
Sutter Care at Home
The Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center at UT Southwestern
The Medical University of South Carolina
The Valley Hospital
Trinity Ambulatory Care
UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital
Visiting Physicians Association
Waldo County General Hospital
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New York, NY (September 18, 2023)—The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is excited to announce twenty front-runners in the New York City Tipping Point Challenge. This clinical training competition was established to catalyze the spread of skills and improve health care delivery for all people living with a serious illness.
Due to generous additional funding from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the front-runners are currently competing with other New York City-based CAPC member organizations to achieve the greatest number of CAPC course completions within the timeframe of the competition, and/or since becoming a member organization. New York City-based member organizations are competing on both the local level and the national.
Until the end of October, there is time for other organizations to catch up to the front-runners. Winners will be announced in February 2024.
“It’s been wonderful to witness the healthy competition amongst New York City-based organizations for the third round of The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge. Clinicians in New York City—across specialties and disciplines—are enhancing their skills in communication, pain management, symptom management, and more. We are thankful for the support of our partners, The John A. Hartford Foundation and The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, to help improve quality of life for patients and their families in our hometown,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman, MPA.
“We are gratified to see so many clinicians across New York City participating in the Tipping Point Challenge,” said Lauren Green Weisenfeld, deputy director of the Healthy Aging Program, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. “With the growing need for clinicians to be trained in core palliative care skills, more and more clinicians across the city can integrate these skills into their daily practice, and improve patient and family care.”
The New York City front-runner organizations include:
Calvary Hospice
Cityblock Medical Practice
Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
Montefiore Hospital – Moses Campus
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Northwell Health At Home
NYC H+H Health and Home Care
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem
NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney
NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx
NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health
NYU Langone Tisch Hospital
Queens Medical Associates
The Mount Sinai Hospital
VNS Health
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New York, NY (November 2, 2022)—The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national leader in the care of serious illness, announced today the third round of The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge. The national challenge will catalyze the spread of skills, ideas, and solutions that will improve health care delivery for all people living with a serious illness.
“The third John A. Hartford Tipping Point Challenge is a wonderful opportunity for organizations from across the country to participate in improving care quality for patients living with serious illness. This round is particularly exciting because we have combined the goals from the previous two competitions to capture all of the innovative work happening to improve care for patients with serious illness and their families,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman, MPA.
“We are pleased to continue supporting CAPC and the Tipping Point Challenge, which is generating innovation and spreading improvements in care that allow older adults and others to live well with serious illness,” said The John A. Hartford Foundation president, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN.
This round of the year-long competition focuses on two specific goals: 1) increase the number of specialties and disciplines enhancing their skills in communication and symptom management targeted to serious illness, and 2) catalyze innovation that will make positive, breakthrough change in the care of serious illness.
All health care organizations, settings, disciplines, and specialties across the US are invited to participate. Organizations competing in the clinical training category are automatically entered—the organization(s) with the greatest number of CAPC course completions will be declared the winner(s). To participate in the innovation category, organizations must submit an innovative initiative, already been implemented with proven outcomes. The submissions for this category will be rigorously vetted by an external panel of expert judges.
Course completions for the clinical category must take place between November 1, 2022 – October 31, 2023. Submissions for the innovation category will take place throughout October 2023. CAPC will announce the winners for both categories in March 2024.
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality, equitable health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. For more information, visit capc.org, tippingpointchallenge.capc.org and follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three priority areas: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
To arrange an interview, please contact John Zoccola @ [email protected] or 267.664.2759.
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New York, New York (October 27, 2021) — Innovative in-home palliative care for rural underserved populations and texting to find the Tipping Point are two of twelve winners announced today in the second round of The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge. The Tipping Point Challenge is sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
“High-quality care for the millions of people living with serious illness means that clinicians from all specialties and disciplines must provide effective, patient-centered communication and pain and symptom management, and that patients with the most complex needs must have access to palliative care specialists,” said CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman. “The Challenge is helping us reach this tipping point of change in US healthcare.”
The goal of this round was 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.
“We congratulate each of the Tipping Point Challenge winners for their innovative and groundbreaking approaches to ensuring that older adults and others living with serious illness have access to the highest quality health care,” said Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. “Because of their work, patients and families will experience improved interactions with better-trained health care providers, resulting in better quality of life.”
The winners are:
Gold
Project: Training Initiative to Improve Palliative Care Accessibility in Western Kenya
Submitted by: The AMPATH Consortium, led by Indiana University School of Medicine
Project: Optum CA Outpatient Palliative Care Program
Submitted by: Optum California
Project: Primary Palliative Care RN Resource Team
Submitted by: Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Gold, Planning Stage
Project: Texting to Find the Tipping Point
Submitted by: Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center
Silver
Project: Choices: Innovative In-home Palliative Care Program for Rural Underserved Population
Submitted by: Helios Care
Project: The CaLM Model: Hardwiring Cancer Centers for Whole Person Care
Submitted by: Livestrong Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
Project: Serial Interdisciplinary Write-Read-Reflect Narrative Experiences To Meaningfully Strengthen Reflective Listening Skills
Submitted by: The Narrative Initiative and St. Lukes University Health Network
Silver, Planning Stage
Project: Uncovering Palliative Care Need in a Medicaid-funded Assisted Living Facility
Submitted by: NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and The New Jewish Home
Bronze
Project: Screening Question on Discrimination for Inpatient Palliative Care Consults
Submitted by: NYU Langone Health
Project: Mass Production of Compassionate Communication in the Era of COVID-19
Submitted by: Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center
Project: From Service to Center: Leading Palliative Innovations for Complex Populations
Submitted by: The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Bronze, Planning Stage
Project: Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Screening and Resource Referrals
Submitted by: Ascension
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. http://www.capc.org and tippingpointchallenge.capc.org. Follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three priority areas: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
Media Contact: John Zoccola @ [email protected] or 267.664.2759
New York, NY (July 26, 2021)─The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) announced today the top-ranked submissions, designated as the Top 25 finalists, in its second round of The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge.
The Challenge is a national competition designed to catalyze the spread of skills, ideas, and solutions that will improve health care delivery for all people living with serious illness. The goal of this second round is to catalyze innovation that will make positive, breakthrough change in the care of serious illness.
The 10-month national competition was open to all health care organizations, settings, disciplines, and specialties across the US. Submissions of innovative initiatives had to align with one of three high-impact categories of change:
- Building Skills Among Nonpalliative Care Specialties and Disciplines: Improving communication skills and/or pain and symptom management skills among all specialists treating CHF, COPD, and cancer
- Improving Systematic Access to Specialty Palliative Care
- Reaching the Patients in Need: Implementing a population health approach to identify and address patients with serious illness and unmet needs
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. CAPC leadership will select the winners for each category from the Top 25. Winners will be announced on October 27, 2021.
The Top 25 are:
- Ascension
- Bluegrass Care Navigators
- Capital Caring Health
- Cedars-Sinai
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Garnet Health Medical Center
- Helios Care
- Indiana University School of Medicine; Moi University School of Medicine; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin; Ascension St. Vincent Hospital; Living Room International; and Duke University School of Medicine
- Institute for Human Caring, Providence St. Joseph Health
- Landmark Health
- Livestrong Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
- Mercy
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- NYU Langone Health
- NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and The New Jewish Home
- Optum CA
- Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center*
- Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center*
- Porter Adventist Hospital*
- Porter Adventist Hospital*
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital
- St. Tammany Health System
- The Narrative Initiative and St. Luke’s University Health Network
- The University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Tufts Medical Center and Merrimack Valley Hospice
*Finalists in two categories
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. http://www.capc.org and tippingpointchallenge.capc.org. Follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three priority areas: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
To arrange an interview, please contact John Zoccola @ [email protected] or 267.664.2759.
New York, NY (June 15, 2020) ─The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge will catalyze innovation and quality improvement in the care of serious illness. The 10-month national challenge is open to all health care organizations, settings, disciplines, and specialties across the US.
Winning organizations, which will receive an honorarium, national recognition, and exposure, must make positive, breakthrough change in the care of serious illness and must align with one of three areas of high-impact innovation:
- Building Skills Among Nonpalliative Care Specialties and Disciplines: Improving communication skills and/or pain and symptom management skills among all specialists treating CHF, COPD, and cancer
- Improving Systematic Access to Specialty Palliative Care
- Reaching the Patients in Need: Implementing a population health approach to identify and address patients with serious illness and unmet needs
Submissions can reflect initiatives developed and implemented any time within the last three years. They will be rigorously vetted, using an evaluation by an external panel of judges representing expertise matched to the areas of innovation.
Organizations can sign up between June 2020-March 2021. Project submissions will take place during April 2021. CAPC will announce 25 finalists from the high-scoring projects in July 2021 and winning organizations will be announced November 2021.
“Organizations from across the country will get to share their best work and ideas. This is how we begin to make systemic change,” said CAPC Director, Diane Meier, MD. “CAPC started the Tipping Point Challenge last year with a call to build palliative care knowledge and skills among all frontline clinicians, sparking multiple imaginative solutions. The new Challenge is broader in approach, scale, scope, and complexity. The success of the first Tipping Point Challenge led us to create the second – the quest for innovation in training non-palliative care clinicians, systemwide integration of palliative care, and reaching patients and families in need.”
“The John A. Hartford Foundation is improving the care of older adults through support for the Tipping Point Challenge and its recognition and showcasing of the top 25 innovations,” said Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation. “We are committed to identifying and communicating about powerful solutions that can accelerate high-impact change.”
About the Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. For more information, visit https://www.capc.org/, tippingpointchallenge.capc.org and follow @CAPCpalliative.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three priority areas: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit johnahartford.org and follow @johnahartford.
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