Palliative care programs are relatively new additions to the range of services available in our nation's health care system. This chapter gives you a firm understanding of palliative care and the essential components of the TriCentral Palliative Care (TCPC) Program, both prerequisites for replicating this innovative model in other healthcare organizations. We start with a general definition of palliative care and then discuss how that definition is operationalized by the TCPC Program. We also present the core components of the TCPC Program and discuss how the program is similar to and yet different from most hospice programs. We close the chapter with a brief analysis of the differences between traditional models of care and the integrated model used by the TCPC Program.
What is palliative care?
Core components of the TriCentral Palliative Care Program
How the TCPC program is similar to and different from hospice care
Chart of program similarities and differences
Integration of the TCPC program with the traditional healthcare model
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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.
