Palliative Care
Palliative Care
The Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program is located in the Bureau of Regulatory Operations. The purpose of the program is to maximize the effectiveness of palliative care initiatives in this state by ensuring that comprehensive and accurate information and education on palliative care is available to health care facilities, other health care providers, and the public.
What is Palliative Care?
"Palliative care" means specialized care for a patient of any age who has been diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness that is provided at any stage of the illness by an interdisciplinary team working in consultation with other health care professionals, including those who may be seeking to cure the illness and that aims to do all of the following:
- Relieve the symptoms, stress, and suffering resulting from the illness;
- Improve the quality of life of the patient and the patient's family;
- Address the patient's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs; and
- Facilitate patient autonomy, access to information, and medical decision making.
Specific health care facilities in Ohio will be required to establish a system for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care and provide information on palliative care to patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care. These facilities include:
- Hospitals registered under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code;
- Ambulatory surgical facilities, as defined in section 3702.30 of the Revised Code;
- Nursing homes, residential care facilities, county homes, or district homes, as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code;
- Veterans' homes operated under Chapter 5907. of the Revised Code;
- Hospice care programs or pediatric respite care programs, as defined in section 3712.01 of the Revised Code; and
- Home health agencies, as defined in section 3701.881 of the Revised Code.
Palliative Care Education Resources for the Public
- CPN | Courageous Parents Network- a comprehensive resource for families with children with serious illness. It is also a great resource of clinicians as well.
Palliative Care Resources for Health Care Providers
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
- An In-Depth Look at Palliative Care and Its Services | Center to Advance Palliative Care (capc.org)
- Home - VitalTalk- evidence based training on how to have challenging discussions with our patients/families. This website is a great resource for clinicians to find training- both online and in person- to allow them to better communicate around serious illness with their patients and families.
- Communication Skills Training | Center to Advance Palliative Care (capc.org)
- Hoping for a Miracle? Chaplain Roles with Patients, Families and the Interdisciplinary Team - Talk given by Denise Hess, MDiv, BCC-PCHAC (Executive director of the Supportive Care Coalition) for the Association for Professional Chaplains. - 11 5 19HESS - YouTube
- Clinical Training Recommendations for Chaplains | Center to Advance Palliative Care (capc.org)
- Clinical Training Recommendations for Pediatric Chaplains | Center to Advance Palliative Care (capc.org)
- theconversationproject.org
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (aahpm.org)
- Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists
- Certified Hospice and Palliative Social Worker (CHP-SW) (socialworkers.org)
- Courses | Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) (advancingexpertcare.org)