Amanda Murphy is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Implementation Specialist for the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs. She provides guidance to health systems implementing the Serious Illness Care Program, leads clinician communication skills training and participates in implementation and research activities that focus on increasing access to high quality serious illness communication and… Continue reading Amanda Murphy
Published in the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine, the Serious Illness Care Program is implemented and tested for impact in hospital medical wards.
Drs. Juliet Jacobson, Rachelle Bernacki, and Jo Paladino pen a JAMA Viewpoint on serious illness communication.
Dr. Jo Paladino in Kaiser Health News on the shift from advanced care planning to having conversations with people about making complicated decisions when they become seriously ill.
In June of 2021 the Serious Illness Care Program convened 35 experts in delivering serious illness care to underserved and marginalized communities with the goal of gaining insights into strategies that drive sustained and equitable improvements in serious illness conversations and care. This report outlines findings and recommendations from the convening.
By Erik Fromme For many, a conversation about what would matter most if they became seriously ill seems like an uncomfortable topic. And yet, now that Americans are more polarized than at any time since the Civil War era, now that serious illness is a daily news headline, and now that our need to feel… Continue reading At Thanksgiving this year, let’s talk about what matters
Developed in collaboration with The Conversation Project, the What Matters to Me Workbook is designed to help people with a serious illness get ready to talk to their health care team (doctor, nurse, social worker, etc.) about what is most important to them.