Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality health care for people living with a serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need.

CAPC is funded through organizational membership and the generous support of foundations and private philanthropy. It is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.

Mission:
To improve care for all seriously ill patients, and their families, by increasing access to quality palliative care services in our nation’s hospitals and other health care settings.

Vission:
The Center to Advance Palliative Care is an organization with a simple vision: Palliative care everywhere.

And they carry out their mission and vision in a variety of ways:
• Improving the knowledge and skills of all clinicians who serve seriously ill patients and their families
• Supporting health care organizations to reliably deliver high-quality palliative care to patients and families in need across all care settings
• Helping the public understand—and know to ask for—palliative care when they are diagnosed with a serious illness
• Educating policymakers about high-value care models for the population living with a serious illness
• Collaborating with health plans, accountable care organizations, large insurance purchasers, and other stakeholders to ensure reliable financing of palliative care services
• Promoting adherence to national quality standards in the care of patients with serious illness