Two States in the Lead for Palliative Care Access, Scorecard Finds
Massachusetts and Oregon earned 4.5 stars, the top score in the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s (CAPC) updated Serious Illness Scorecard, as reported in a Palliative Care News article, which included an interview with Brynn Bowman, MPA, CAPC CEO, and Stacie Sinclair, MPP, associate director for policy and care transformation. Per Ms. Bowman, “The breadth of the scores that were awarded to states using the new methodology just demonstrates that there’s a ton of opportunity to advance care for people with serious illness at the state level. The updated methodology includes access to specialty palliative care, payment for palliative care services, the structures and coalitions in place to advocate at the state level, clinical skills building, and then other kinds of state-level resources for patients and caregivers.”