CCCC In Action

Register Now for Thinking Ahead Webinars

Join CCCC on April 6, April 20 & May 11 for this exciting webinar series designed to help healthcare professionals to better serve persons with developmental disabilities and provide tips and tools necessary to facilitate advance care planning with this special population. Learn more.

CCCC Conference Presentations Now Available

200 doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and others participated in CCCC's 3rd annual conference - Building a Community of Caring - on March 16. Speaker PowerPoints are now available on the CCCC web site.

CPR & Tube Feeding Brochures Now Available in Four More Languages

CCCC's popular CPR & Tube Feeding brochures are now available in Korean, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese. Download them free-of-charge on CCCC's web site.  The brochures are also available in Chinese and Spanish. The new translations were made possible by a grant from Kaiser Permanente Southern California.

Building Bridges: End-of-Life Care through a Cultural Lens

CCCC's Building Bridges pre-conference workshop on March 15 sold out. We'd like to apologize to those who were unable to register. More Building Bridges workshops will be scheduled during the coming year - in both northern and southern California. Stay tuned for more information.

Revised POLST Form to Go into Effect April 1

Proposed changes to the California POLST Form have been approved by the statewide POLST Task Force and the Emergency Medical Services Authority Commission. The new form will go into effect on April 1, 2011. Previous versions of signed POLST forms remain valid. Click here to preview a copy of the revised form.

National Health Care Decisions Day - April 16

NHDD exists to inspire, educate, and empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning. Click here to find out how you can become involved.

ASCO Recommends Steps to Improve End-of-Life Care

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) issued a policy statement recommending steps to ensure that physicians initiate candid discussions about the full range of palliative care and treatment options soon after a patients' diagnosis with advanced cancer.

ASCO also has a free booklet for patients with advanced cancer to help guide them through difficult patient-doctor discussions.

National Palliative Care Registry Is Open

The Center to Advance Palliative Care's Registry is the only repository of operational data on palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals. Enter your 2010 data into the Registry now!

Call for Papers: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care

The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care will devote a future issue to the topic of spirituality in end-of-life and palliative care. Submission of manuscripts that address a broad range of related topics are encouraged. Deadline is June 30, 2011. For more information, contact Ellen Csikai, editor at ecsikai@sw.ua.edu.

Dr. Steve Pantilat Receives 2011 Irvine Leadership Award

Steve Pantilat, MD, director and founder of the UCSF Palliative Care Service, is a recipient of a 2011 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for fostering a new approach to caring for patients with life-threatening illnesses and improving their quality of life.

Neal Slatkin Recognized as One of America's Top Doctors for Cancer

Neal Slatkin, MD, DABPM, Hospice of the Valley's Chief Medical Officer, has been recognized again by Castle Connolly as one of America's Top Doctors in Cancer. Dr. Slatkin has received this honor for four consecutive years.

GeriPal Wins "Best Clinical Weblog of 2010"

Geripal, started by Eric Widera, MD, and Alex Smith, MD, has been named Best Clinical Weblog of 2010 by MedGadget: An Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies.

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