Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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The Circle of Life Award honors palliative and end-of-life care programs that:
- Serve individuals with serious and life-limiting illness, their families, and their communities
- Demonstrate effective, patient/family-centered, timely, safe, efficient and equitable care to patients with serious and life-limiting illness
- Use innovative approaches to meeting critical needs and serve as sustainable, replicable models
- Pursue quality improvement consistent with the National Consensus Project (NCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, NHPCO Standards of Practice for Hospice Programs or other widely-accepted standards, within their resources and capabilities
- Address physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural needs throughout the disease trajectory
Honorees are typically:
- Emphasizing coordinated or integrated care delivery throughout all settings
- Engaging underserved populations
- Promoting palliative care in diverse populations
- Using strategies for engaging communities
- Creating partnerships with other healthcare organizations and practitioners, and initiatives within long-term care facilities
Rural organizations have received the award in the past.
All organizations or groups in the United States that provide palliative or end-of-life care are eligible for the award.
Up to 3 awards are presented each year.
A link to the application package is available on the program website.
Email completed applications to circleoflife@aha.org.
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