Dr. Richard Brumley, M.D., is the Medical Director of Kaiser Permanente Hospice and Home Health Department for the TriCentral Service Area in Downey, California. He is residency trained in Family Medicine and is board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. As an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, he has instructed Family Practice residents in the importance of hospice and home health services. He has been active in the promotion of hospice and pain and symptom control for over 20 years. He is the principal investigator for a Kaiser Permanente project, supported by the Garfield Memorial Fund, to replicate the TriCentral Palliative Care (TCPC) Program in Kaiser sites in Colorado and Hawaii. He also was principal investigator for a prior project that evaluated the effectiveness of the TCPC Program. In 2001, he and his colleague and Toolkit co-author, Kristine Hillary, were co-awarded a Faculty Scholarship by the Soros Foundation's Project on Death in America for work in palliative care.
Kristine Hillary is the Director of Home Health and Hospice for Kaiser Permanente, TriCentral Service Area in Downey, California. Ms. Hillary graduated in 1971 from Lutheran Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She holds a BSN and MSN from California State University at Los Angeles and returned to CSULA in 2000 for post-master's certification as a nurse practitioner. The beginning of her nursing career was spent in acute hospital settings, both in general medical-surgical and intensive care units, as a staff nurse and supervisor. She has worked as a clinician and administrator in hospice and palliative care for the past 15 years. Ms. Hillary has participated in several research projects related to care and decision-making at the end of life and has lectured frequently on developing a home-based model of palliative care.
For more information about the TriCentral Palliative Care Toolkit visit www.growthhouse.org/palliative/. All content is Copyright © 2002, 2003 by Richard D. Brumley, M.D. All rights reserved. No part of this toolkit may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the publishers. This guide to developing home-based outpatient palliative care services was developed through a grant to the Kaiser Permanente TriCentral Service Area from The Project on Death In America. The Kaiser Permanente TriCentral Palliative Care Program is a Sustaining Member of the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network On End-of-life Care (IICN) which links major organizations internationally.
