Cambia Health Foundation is proud to announce the 10 outstanding palliative care physicians and nurses selected from across the nation for our 2016 Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program.
 
The 2014 and 2015 cohorts have achieved notable accomplishments across all areas of palliative care. Recently, Lynn F. Reinke, PhD, ARNP and Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, were invited by the National Institutes on Aging and the National Palliative Care Research Center to identify palliative care research priorities among non-cancer specialty services. Outcomes of this effort will include papers identifying research priorities for each specialty and a summary of cross-cutting themes among the specialty services. Collectively, these priorities will guide future funding opportunities for the field of palliative care.
 
The participation of our Scholars in projects of this caliber reflect the transformation of innovation to impact that we envisioned when launching this national leadership and workforce development initiative in 2013. We have also made other key investments that are advancing the palliative care field. In fact, many of the investments Cambia Health Foundation has made since 2009 align with and support all five key recommendations outlined in the “Dying in America” report (see table below).
 
Please take a moment to meet the talented men and women who represent the future of palliative care. We could not be more excited about what the future holds as we all work to advance patient-centered care for individuals and their families.
 
 

IOM Dying In America Recommendations	Examples of Cambia Health Foundation focus
Payments and Policies	State by State Report Card End of Life Polling: A National Survey and Focus Groups Palliative Care Everywhere: Home-based delivery of Palliative Care (CAPC) Palliative Care Quality Measures to Improve Patient-Centered Outcomes
Clinician-patient communication and advanced care planning	OASIS Palliative Care  Hood River Right Choice at the Right Time project and Empowering Communities and Honoring Wishes (Idaho) Enhancing Communication and Decision-Making for Chronically Ill Infants and their Families Communication Tool to Assist Older Adults Facing Difficult Surgical Decisions
Professional Education and Development	Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program *  Helping Meet the Palliative Care Workforce Needs in Washington with a Community/Academic Partnership Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence annual conference ELNEC  targeting on line education in Schools of Nursing University of Utah Fellowship Geri-talk training for generalist providers and nurses caring for older adults
Public Education and Engagement	The Conversation Project: Conversation Ready Community Resource Center  Oregon Humanities “Talking About Dying” program  CAPC “Get Palliative” Familias en Accion
Delivery of Care	Palliative Care Everywhere: Home-based delivery of Palliative Care (CAPC) Implementing and disseminating quality metrics for primary and specialty palliative care in inpatient and outpatient settings OHSU: envisioning sustainable palliative Cancer Care (OSHU) Innovation Fund Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Community-Based Palliative Care Services( SF Public Hospital)  Symptom Burden and Palliative Care Among Patients with Multi-Morbidity ( Veterans Administration)

 
* Represents 30 palliative care projects that align with the IOM goals