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End of Life Palliative Education Resource Center

The End of Life Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC), shares educational resource material among the community of health professional educators involved in palliative care education. Its series of fact sheets provide concise, practical, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on key topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing life-limiting illnesses. Fast Facts are designed to be easily accessible and clinically relevant monographs on palliative care topics.

End-of-Life Curriculum

End-of-Life Curriculum The End-of-Life Curriculum is 16-hour web-based curriculum, which incorporates basic material designed for use by physicians in any area of expertise. Developed by the Stanford Faculty Development Center, this eight-module curriculum is implemented as a PowerPoint slide presentation, with slides and teachers' notes on both the content and teaching process.

End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)

End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), an American Nurses Association project, is a national education initiative to improve end-of-life care in the United States.

Engagement in perinatal depression treatment: a qualitative study of barriers across and within racial/ethnic groups

Researchers examined care engagement factors across and within race/ethnicity to better understand previously observed racial/ethnic disparities in perinatal depression treatment.

Evidence-based outpatient miscarriage management

Onsite training: outpatient miscarriage management Onsite training offers evidence-based outpatient miscarriage management, and can help your facility offer evidence-based outpatient miscarriage management. Early pregnancy loss is common, occurring in approximately 15-20% of known pregnancies. It's often managed in the operating room despite evidence showing treatment in outpatient or emergency department settings can save time, cost, is equally safe, and is preferred by many patients.

Family Initiated Treatment (FIT)

HCA launches website about Family Initiated Treatment (FIT) The Health Care Authority (HCA) has information for communities and providers about family initiated treatment (FIT). The site includes information on outpatient FIT, inpatient FIT, and mental health information disclosures.

Financing That Rewards Better Health and Well-Being

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has prepared this brief based on a workshop in June 2021 on the need to transform the United States’ current model of health care financing – which rewards the volume of services provided – to a model that incentivizes integrated payment approaches that are person-centered and holistic in advancing individual, community, and population health.

Food Lifeline and Sea Mar Community Health Centers

About Food Lifeline and Sea Mar Community Health Centers Founded in 1979, Food Lifeline is part of the national “Feeding America” network that assists in collecting food that would otherwise go to waste to provide meals to thousands of people across Western Washington. Food Lifeline rescues millions of pounds of this surplus food from farmers, manufacturers, grocery stores, and restaurants and focuses on a long term solution to hunger.

Food Lifeline and Sea Mar Community Health Centers, Case example

Health Equity Principles for Leaders

For communities and their residents to recover fully and fairly from the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local leaders should consider the health equity principles in this resource in designing and implementing their responses. These principles are not a detailed public health guide for responding to the pandemic or reopening the economy, but rather a compass that continually points leaders toward an equitable and lasting recovery.