2016 - Our History 2016

  • CDC and Ariadne Labs release Opioid checklist.
  • Primary Health Care team publishes core tenets for primary care improvement as part of a World Bank study to help China improve its health system.
  • Serious Illness Care announces first innovation partnerships: Baylor Scott & White in Texas, Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts, and Clatterbridge Cancer Center NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom.
  • Gawande testifies before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging about improving care for seriously ill patients.
  • Serious Illness Care Program’s founding director Dr. Susan Block honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
  • Drs. Justin Sanders and Josh Lakin from Serious Illness Care selected for the Cambia Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program.