How is CAPC maintaining momentum in the field?
CAPC’s capacity to help operationalize palliative care programs was further advanced with the advent of CAPC’s Palliative Care Leadership Centers. Through these exemplary palliative care programs, CAPC enables interdisciplinary teams from health care settings nationwide to visit peer institutions. There they study palliative care in practice and learn through long-term mentoring how to institutionalize palliative care in their own organizations. Experience working on or with a palliative care service will not only effectively educate health professionals across the country, but will also contribute to the social and culture-change movement needed to fundamentally improve our health care system. The demand for the training and support CAPC provides has never been higher. While only a handful of palliative care programs were in existence five years ago, today over 1,100 hospitals in the U.S. provide palliative care services to their patients. In 2003, the American Hospital Association re
