ProGrESS PCS: Program for Growth, Enhancement, Sustainability, and Success of Palliative Care Services
ProGrESS PCS is a new program developed by UCSF to assist established palliative care programs to thrive and expand. UCSF’s expert multidisciplinary faculty have successfully trained over 90 US hospitals in the fundamentals of launching a hospital-based palliative care program through the Palliative Care Leadership CentersSM (PCLC) program. ProGrESS PCS is a 2-day seminar in which teams or individual members of established palliative care programs will learn the skills necessary to successfully manage the challenges of sustaining and growing a palliative care service. Conference curriculum includes:
• Financial Analyses for the Growing Program
Understand and use analyses appropriate to the scope and goals of your palliative care service.
• Supporting Program Growth with Clinical, Operational and Satisfaction Data
Learn how to collect, manage, and analyze different types of data to sustain or expand your palliative care program.
• Promoting Team Self Care
Learn how to prevent burnout with effective coping techniques, wellness strategies, and exercises to promote self care.
• Patient/Family Communication: Basics to Best Practices
Learn and practice skills and strategies to improve communication with patients and families.
• Strategies to Manage Planned and Unexpected Growth
Develop strategies for managing program growth, whether planned or unexpected.
• Maximizing Team Functioning
Learn strategies for improving team functioning and practice techniques for managing difficult conversations.
• Seeking Philanthropic Support
Learn how to approach potential donors and organizations to secure philanthropic funding for your program.
We will also offer the following opportunities for networking and individualized learning:
Office Hours
Throughout the conference you will have the opportunity to participate in one-on-one faculty consultation to discuss topics specific to your institution.
“Homeroom” Peer-to-Peer Networking Sessions
Share and compare with leaders of other hospital-based palliative care teams during faculty-facilitated “homeroom” sessions.
Poster Session: “What's Worked: Overcoming Barriers, Implementing Innovations”
Enjoy peer-to-peer learning and networking at a poster session combined with reception. Participants will present posters describing innovations and solutions. We invite you to submit your innovation for our consideration.
The next ProGrESS PCS conference will take place on Thursday & Friday, July 17-18, 2008 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco.
Registration will open in February 2008
For more information about ProGrESS PCS, please email us at ucsfpclc@medicine.ucsf.edu or call (415) 476-2576.
This program is supported by the Archstone Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the JEHT Foundation.
