Hospice and Palliative Care Resources Guide: Multimedia

Starting and Sustaining an Outpatient Palliative Care Program 

Lori Yosick, Director for Community Palliative Care at Trinity Health

Lori Yosick shares tips for starting, growing, and sustaining an outpatient palliative care program, and discusses how she learned the valuable lesson of slowing down and planning ahead before getting started.

Palliative Care from the Top Down 

Ira Byock, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer for the Institute for Human Caring of Providence St. Joseph Health

In this episode, Dr. Ira Byock is joined by Dr. Kevin Murphy to discuss bringing uniformity to all palliative care programs at a health system of 50 hospitals serving communities across seven states

More to dying than meets the eye

Martha Atkins, CEO Atkinsosity, LCC

Those who work with the dying are familiar with patients seeing long deceased loved ones, angelic beings, even hearing music and comforting voices as the patient nears death. Deathbed phenomena have been documented in the days, weeks, and months before death since the 1500s. Often confused with hallucinations, deathbed phenomena can bring comfort to patients and caregivers if those involved know what they are experiencing. This talk will explain deathbed phenomena and present on-going research about the topic. Accounts from the dying and bedside witnesses will be shared.

Emphathy.

CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, shared this video, titled "Empathy," with the Cleveland Clinic staff during his 2012 State of the Clinic address on Feb. 27, 2013.

Allison Massari

Patient and Health Care Provider Advocate, and Motivational Speaker on resilience, change, compassion, and the patient experience.

Clinician's Guide to Family Conferences.

VITALtalk.

A seven-step guide for doctors, nurses, and others who care for patients with serious illness and their families. With funding from Alpha Omega Alpha, we designed it especially for residents--but we know that any clinician (nurse, social worker, psychologist, or chaplain) might need to lead a serious conversation. 

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