Our Mission
We improve the care of people with serious or life-limiting illnesses by convening the field, advocating for equitable policies and improved health outcomes, establishing best practices, and sharing resources.
Our Vision
All patients, families and caregivers will have equitable access to quality hospice and palliative care.
Strategic Plan
The Coalition Strategic Plan provides a framework to support the mission and vision with specific strategies to achieve the goals:
- Advance health equity for patients with serious illness and their caregivers
- Advocate for legislative and regulatory policy changes to advance the field of hospice and palliative care practice
- Disseminate best practices, research, and data to advance the field
- Create a sustainable foundation for the Coalition
Strategic Framework
Patients need equitable access to quality hospice and palliative care regardless of location, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or ability.
1.1. Create a multi-year strategy of focus informed by the Equity and Inclusion Workgroup
1.2. Forge ongoing collaborations across the DEI field of hospice and palliative care to build capacity, align resources, avoid duplication, and overcome barriers to care
1.3. Recognizing the unique needs of pediatric patients and their families; promote ongoing collaboration and coordination across the field of pediatric palliative care to build capacity, align resources, and overcome barriers to pediatric palliative care
Patients deserve a primary and specialty workforce and universal quality standards to meet their hospice and palliative care needs.
2.1. Collect data sources to share more broadly and consider joint recommendations to address workforce shortages and the lack of workforce diversity
2.2. Increase access to innovative conference and research data
2.3. Regularly revise/update the National Consensus Project Guidelines to reflect the latest evidence-based best-practice standards in the field
2.4. Encourage and coordinate consistent messaging and make the case for improved palliative care education and recognition for all health professionals
All people with serious and/or life-limiting conditions should have access to the full scope of palliative care regardless of where they are
3.1. Create specific joint Coalition legislative and regulatory goals and work transparently together
3.2. Integrate equity as a foundational principle and key priority across hospice and palliative care policy advocacy agendas
3.3. Encourage the adoption of quality standards that are embraced throughout the profession and utilized in policy efforts
3.4. Advocate for increases in NIH funding to support ongoing research
3.5. Continue to support the expansion and adoption of home and community-based palliative care and/or wherever the patient and family needs it most
The Coalition will be the lead convener for the organizations within the hospice and palliative care field
4.1. Create a diverse funding strategy for the Coalition’s long-term sustainability
4.2. Increase pathways to leadership for Coalition members
4.3. Engage external partners in the field to strengthen our work
4.4. Increase staff capacity to support strategic goals
