Palliative Care

Sutter Care at Home

Formerly Sutter VNA & Hospice and before that Home Hospice of Sonoma County & the oldest hospice in Sonoma County. Sutter Care at Home extends the continuum of health care from hospitals and doctors’ offices directly into patients’ homes, where they receive medical attention, education, and compassionate care needed to recover or live with illness […]

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The Vital Importance of Advance Care Planning Amid COVID-19. If not now, when?

Judy Thomas, JD, Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC), presents how to proceed with clients served in the COVID-19 crisis in a CCCC Blog post titled, “If Not Now, When?” April 1, 2020 . Differences between the Advance Health Care Directive and Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

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Vital Talk

Vital Talk has been at the forefront of improving serious illness communication a few decades now. Communications tools created by an accomplished faculty empower clinicians to communicate about serious illness empathetically and effectively, enabling them to feel less burnout in the process. In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Vital Talk created a “COVID Ready Communication

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