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A powerful ally to improve healthcare for people with long-term chronic disease or debilitating illness
A collaborative of
The Palliative Care Institute is a new collaborative between SUNY at Buffalo and The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care (CHPC). The Institute will be a powerful ally in the effort to improve healthcare for people diagnosed with long-term chronic diseases and debilitating illnesses. Together with SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Social Work, School of Pharmacy, School of Health Related Sciences and CHPC, the partners have formed The Palliative Care Institute.
"The Palliative Care Institute will interconnect community and university efforts across disciplines," said William E. Finn, CHPC president and CEO. "with the goal of establishing excellence in palliative care clinical practice, research and education. The need for physicians educated and trained in palliative and end-of-life care will clearly escalate as our population ages and patients continue to be diagnosed with long-term chronic diseases and debilitating illnesses."
The collaboration between the hospices and academic communities is a natural one given the interdisciplinary nature and scope of palliative medicine. If palliative medicine is to advance into a mature discipline, the relationship will be an essential one.
The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Hospice Buffalo's parent company, has built a strong educational program. In 2002, CHPC successfully established The Center for Excellence in End-of-Life Education, Research & Practice through a grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation. The newly created Palliative Care Institute creates an all encompassing platform that integrates community resources, health care providers and academic institutions in collaborative partnerships to advance the field of palliative care medicine.
The Palliative Care Institute's partners universally share the vision of improving the way in which palliative care is presented to our future practitioners and practiced by our community's healthcare providers.
The aim of The Palliative Care Institute is to interconnect community and university efforts across disciplines with the goal of establishing excellence in palliative care clinical practice, research and education.
• Integrate palliative care concepts into the core curriculums of medicine, nursing, social work, pharmacy, and health related sciences.
• Change the role and expectations (mind-set), practice patterns of future practitioners in the delivery of palliative care.
• Change approach to care delivery - establish goals of care, integrate palliative care delivery to meet the changing needs of the patient.
• Increase quality of patient care and improve clinical outcome measures of symptom relief, honoring patient choice/wishes, reduced hospitalization (cost) and length of stay.
• Raise public awareness about the availability of palliative care so that consumers can make more informed choices about their care.
• Enhancing the body of knowledge of comprehensive, interdisciplinary palliative care.
• Partner with providers (hospitals), health care organizations and insurance providers to address issues including symptom management, frequency of hospitalizations, continuity of care across settings, and alignment of patient wishes with treatment.
• Serve as a catalyst for change and advance public policies that support excellent, high-quality care for people who are seriously ill.
• Conduct research into the most effective ways to provide palliative care.
With more than thirty years of clinical and administrative experience, CHPC has grown to become a recognized leader within the hospice and palliative movement and is uniquely positioned to lead the Palliative Care Institute endeavor. With the resources of an exceptional medical school, hospital systems of recognition and a premier hospice program, The Palliative Care Institute has the opportunity to make a difference locally, nationally and internationally. CHPC is pleased to have the opportunity to create a program of excellence that will incorporate the best of what exists today, with a clear vision of what is still possible.
Jean Brown, Ph. D.
Michael Cain, M.D.
Deborah A. Childs, RN, MS
William E. Finn, MBA
John Gillespie, M.D.
Cheryl Howe
Louis Izzo, Jr.
Christopher Kerr, M.D.
Amy McDonald, M.D.
Robert A. Milch, M.D.
John Reinhold
Nancy Smyth, Ph.D.
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