Palliative Care | Bree Collaborative

Congratulations to our 2024 Bree Collaborative award winner for Best Practices in Palliative Care:

UW Medicine & UW Physicians
Kaiser Permenante

(Adopted November 2019)

Patients with symptomatic serious illness often have unmet needs. This workgroup will define minimum standards for team-based palliative care and pathways for integrating palliative care into active treatment. The workgroup met from January to November 2019.

Supporting Materials

Letter from the HCA Accepting the Palliative Care Recommendations
Palliative Care Charter and Roster

Previous Meeting Materials

Date	Materials
November 8	Agenda November 8 Minutes September 6 Minutes November 8 Palliative Care Draft Recommendations
September 6	Agenda September 6 Minutes August 8 Palliative Care Draft Recommendations
August 16	Agenda August 16 Minutes July 12 Draft Recommendations
July 12	Agenda July 12 Minutes June 14 Draft Palliative Care Recommendations
June 14	Agenda June 14 Minutes May 10 Draft Recommendations Palliative Care
May 10	Agenda May 10 Minutes April 12 Palliative Care Draft Recommendations Appendix: Guideline and Systematic Review Search Results
April 12	Agenda April 12 Draft Minutes March 8 Appendix C Palliative Care Defining Serious Illness/Palliative Care Triggers Justis Slides
March 8	Agenda March 8 Minutes February 8 Joint Commission Palliative Care Metrics CAPC-CPARC National Palliative Care Registry WA State Snapshot NCP Guidelines 8 Domains
February 8	Agenda February 8 Minutes January 4 NCHPC-NCP Gudielines Draft Charter Roster
January 4	Agenda January 4 Health Affairs Guideline Summary Bree Palliative Care Slides Conflict of Interest Form OPMA Training Roster

Workgroup Members

Member	Title	Organization
John Robinson, MD, SM (Chair)	Chief Medical Officer	First Choice Health
Lydia Bartholomew, MD	Senior Medical Director, Pacific Northwest	Aetna
George Birchfield, MD	Inpatient Hospice	EvergreenHealth
Raleigh Bowden, MD	Director	Okanogan Palliative Care Team
Mary Catlin, MPH	Senior Director	Honoring Choices, Washington State Hospital Association
Randy Curtis, MD, MPH	Director, Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence	University of Washington Medicine
Leslie Emerick	Director of Public Policy	Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Ross M Hays, MD	Director, Palliative Care Program	Seattle Children’s
Greg Malone, MA, Mdiv, BCC	Mgr Palliative Care Services, & Spiritual Care Provider	Swedish Medical Center
Kerry Schaefer, MS	Strategic Planner for Employee Health	King County
Bruce Smith, MD	Medical Director of Providence Hospice of Seattle	Providence Health and Services
Richard Stuart, DSW	Psychologist	Swedish Medical Center – Edmonds Campus
Stephen Thielke, MD	Geriatric Psychiatry	University of Washington
Cynthia Tomik, LICSW	Manager, Palliative Care	EvergreenHealth
Gregg Vandekieft, MD, MA	Medical Director for Palliative Care	Providence St. Peter Hospital
Hope Wechkin, MD	Medical Director, Hospice and Palliative Care	EvergreenHealth

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