The toolkit is targeted toward health and social service providers, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and allied health professionals, who want to establish within their healthcare organization an outpatient palliative care program based on the TCPC Program. Additionally, it provides helpful information to healthcare administrators who must provide budget approval for the new palliative care programs and to the health and social service professionals who will refer patients to the programs. The toolkit also serves as a reference manual for local, state, and national end-of-life care associations, for researchers and academics, and for foundations that support efforts to improve end-of-life care. Finally, the toolkit addresses patients through the marketing materials it includes. Program administrators can use these materials, in full or part, to inform patients about your Palliative Care Program's availability and special features.
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.
