Minnesota Serious Illness Action NetworkThe Palliative Care Summit: Practice, Policy, and Payment builds on input from the 2020 Virtual Serious Illness Action Network Forum.To address urgent needs in serious illness care during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Stratis Health and Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care (MNHPC) convened a virtual forum in August 2020, resulting in a new report that includes action plans for the pandemic and beyond. To ensure all stakeholders were represented, more than 100 attendees included patients and families, caregivers, clinicians, health care organization leaders and staff, payers, and allied organizations concerned with serious illness care across the full continuum of care. Stratis Health and MNHCP leaders synthesized the input and discussion into actionable recommendations organized around three themes:
View the full report, with real-life illustrations and examples from forum participants. The Palliative Care Summit: Practice, Policy, and Payment puts the feedback from Serious Illness Action Network stakeholders by offering palliative care training for providers and advancing efforts to improve palliative care policy and payment. |