Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

12/03/2025

Often dismissed as insignificant, nausea can be debilitating for patients.

Prevalence rates of nausea range from 43-49% in patients with AIDS. Nausea and vomiting, while distinct, commonly coexist, universally impacting the quality and quantity of life in patients with serious illnesses.

To learn more about the ins and outs of nausea and vomiting in people living with serious illness, including causes, treatment, and patient-education, read CAPC blog 'How to Manage Nausea and Vomiting in Patients with Serious Illness' >>

A palliative care clinician explains the ins and outs of nausea and vomiting in people living with serious illness, including causes, treatment, and patient-education.

12/03/2025

At least one in five people in the US are living with a disability, including physical limitations, cognitive difficulties, or serious mental illness. Evidence shows that many of these individuals receive poorer quality health care and, as a result, experience serious illness at much higher rates than those without disabilities. Palliative care, with its focus on holistic, person-centered care, is uniquely positioned to address the complex needs of people with disabilities. However, many clinicians lack specialized training on how to effectively care for this population, leaving gaps in accessible and equitable care.

In this webinar, Sarah Quinto, MA, CFRE, shares practical strategies and best practices for clinicians so they can deliver equitable, high-quality palliative care to people with disabilities. Participants learn how to identify and address barriers to care, promote accessibility, and ensure person-centered care that respects the unique needs of this population. https://ow.ly/2ikC50Xyp8s

12/02/2025

Learn about the latest opportunities to support the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA):

🏛️Complete Action Alert
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is hosting an action alert. Complete it here: https://aahpm.quorum.us/campaign/148664/

🏛️ State-Specific Constituent Support Letters
Sign state-specific constituent letters asking representatives for their support:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeO6sX5w8SQMNEFJSr83xRa7YUk0-8YnM8jkpScbAh0PDPj4A/viewform

12/02/2025

Today is ! If you’re inspired by CAPC’s mission to increase access to quality, equitable care services for people living with a serious illness, consider supporting our work.

Your donation will help expand CAPC’s innovative and vital programs so that we can touch many more lives, bringing us closer to a future with “palliative care everywhere.” https://ow.ly/T24s50Xygty

12/01/2025

INCITE Training Program: Request for Applications Now Open! >> https://www.capc.org/incite-training-program/

Part of CAPC’s Caregiver Support Initiative, the Increasing Caregiver Support Implementation through Training and Education (INCITE) program is a new training initiative led by nationally recognized caregiver experts. Hosted by UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the program will provide training for competitively selected interprofessional teams at U.S. cancer centers.

Open enrollment begins today, December 1, 2025. Interested organizations must submit an online application to be considered. Applications close January 15, 2026. https://www.capc.org/incite-training-program/

11/30/2025

CAPC’s Symptom Management Courses https://ow.ly/eu9i50V6wuu

CAPC has updated our Symptom Management courses with the most up-to-date clinical techniques for assessing and managing common sources of distress such as nausea, constipation, dyspnea, depression, and anxiety. Both palliative care and non-palliative care clinicians can take these online courses to learn evidence-based strategies to improve patient quality of life and help prevent avoidable crises.

What’s New?
✅ Integration of the latest clinical information and techniques
✅ Practical management strategies to reduce serious complications and side effects
✅ Inclusion of the latest guidelines on the treatment of mental health symptoms in those with serious illness

CAPC members, if you have taken our previous Symptom Management courses, you can take these and earn new continuing education credits (for physicians, nurses, social workers, and care managers). Free ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits are also available for physicians.

11/29/2025

The Case for Hospital Palliative Care >> https://www.capc.org/documents/246/

Download this free publication for key messages to help you get the buy in you need from your hospital or health system leadership. Applicable across all settings.

11/28/2025

💬 5 Communication Skills courses!
🔗 https://ow.ly/zThR50QTgOy

Clinicians from all specialties and disciplines: learn effective communication techniques for serious illness conversations through CAPC’s new Communication Skills courses ⤵

1️⃣ Discussing Serious News
2️⃣ Discussing Prognosis With Patients and Caregivers
3️⃣ Clarifying Patient Goals of Care
4️⃣ Leading a Patient and Caregiver Meeting
5️⃣ Care Planning

These five courses provide role modeling and step-by-step guidance through complex conversations around discussing a diagnosis of a serious illness; communicating about prognosis; eliciting patient values to guide goals of care conversations; leading an effective meeting with patients and the people who matter them; helping patients and caregivers plan for the future; and much more.

CAPC members can take these new courses and earn free continuing education credits (for physicians, nurses, social workers, and care managers) and ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits for physicians.

11/27/2025

CAPC Learning Pathways are clinical training roadmaps based on specialty, discipline, or topic area. If you are not sure where to start with CAPC courses, these pathways are your guide >> https://ow.ly/7ZEx50REOSy

11/26/2025

Health care workers are five times more likely than the average American worker to experience workplace violence (whether physical or verbal), but what we see on the surface is rarely the full story.

Earlier this year, we shared Dr. Jordan See's blog, which outlines the evidence‑based “CALMER” framework, which helps clinicians recognize patient agitation, respond with empathy, and defuse escalating emotion. A patient’s anger often masks fear, grief, or anxiety. In this new blog, Dr. Jordan See, shares the evidence-based CALMER framework to help clinicians recognize and de-escalate agitation.
🔗 https://ow.ly/jkEi50XuovC

11/25/2025

: Marketing and Messaging Palliative Care toolkit >> http://ow.ly/Lbqm50NYtY0

Accurately defining and discussing palliative care is crucial to effectively communicate its benefits to patients, families, referral sources, and service partners. CAPC’s Marketing and Messaging Palliative Care toolkit has tools and information to help you and your team refine your program’s marketing strategy and your messaging. Most tools are open access.

Explore the toolkit today!

11/24/2025

Mark your calendar for CAPC's upcoming virtual events ➡ https://ow.ly/Q0L250SNjxq

Access CAPC’s faculty of national experts through upcoming events.

Workshops ⤵
🔷 3/4 : Prescribing Ketamine for Symptom Management in Patients with Serious Illness
🔷 1/13, 2/26, 4/15, & 5/4 : Optimizing Buprenorphine for Pain and Substance Use Disorder in Patients with Serious Illness: A Case-Based Approach

Webinar ⤵
🟨 1/28 : Key Insights from Integrative Medicine for Palliative Care Teams

Virtual Office Hours ⤵
🔶 12/9: Well-Being Debriefing to Address the Challenges of Our Work
🔶 12/15: Achieving Health Equity and Reducing Implicit Bias in Palliative Care
🔶 12/11: How to Hold Well-Being Debriefings at Your Organization