CAPC grades hospitals on palliative care
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, October 7, 2008
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and National Palliative Care Research Center released a state-by-state report card last week, grading the level of patient and physician access to palliative programs—a specialty that aims to improve quality of life for those with serious and chronic illness and their family members. The study examined patient access to services in hospitals and board-certified palliative medicine physicians, as well as medical student access to clinical training and physician access to specialty-level training for palliative medicine.
Among the top nationally ranked states are Vermont, Montana, and New Hampshire. Among the lowest scoring states are Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi that each earned an “F.”
The study also found that in states with such programs, patients spend fewer days in intensive care during the last six months of life and are less likely to die in the hospital.
More than half of today’s U.S. hospitals with fifty or more beds include a palliative care program, according to a CAPC press release.
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