This project would develop a statewide rural palliative care Project ECHO program, which would offer virtual care-based learning and mentoring sessions aimed at increasing knowledge, skills and confidence with providers engaging in palliative care. In addition, it...
To improve health care access for older adults in Michigan prisons with severe illnesses, this initiative will train incarcerated individuals as peer caregivers, providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed palliative care. The program aims to reduce the burden on...
To increase access to high-quality palliative care services in rural Michigan, the Michigan Center for Rural Health will partner with Stratis Health to establish new community-based palliative care programs in five underserved communities. This initiative will build...
To increase access to palliative care for older adults in rural counties, Hospice of Southwest Michigan will expand its services to provide in-home care for patients with chronic or life-limiting illnesses in Cass and Van Buren counties. The initiative will also...
This project will work with nursing programs in community colleges across Michigan to embed specific training in palliative care for residents living with serious illness, especially older adults.
The goal of this initiative is to improve access to advance care planning (ACP) conversations and decrease the amount of 1:1 time it takes to provide them, ultimately resulting in more ACPs completed and more older adults’ wishes being honored.
This initiative takes a different approach to traditional advance care planning efforts by focusing specifically on older adults in skilled nursing facilities, building their advance care plans into electronic medical records, and identifying health concerns prior to...
This project seeks to provide more accessible and on-demand care for hospice patients through the launch of a telehealth pilot program. The pilot program will not replace or reduce hands-on care but was developed to complement existing services to improve...
Central Michigan University will tailor and replicate an established model of interdisciplinary palliative care training for primary care and other healthcare providers in the state of Michigan. The statewide program will increase palliative care knowledge and skills,...
