The Transformation Project:
A New Initiative to Improve Advanced Illness Care
Center for Practical Bioethics and former AARP CEO launch effort to help patients, families and caregivers and to change the care system
Living with advanced illness in America is painful, isolating and costly. Most people spend their last days alone in hospitals and nursing homes, often in pain, despite the availability of effective pain management.
It doesn't have to be that way. Now is the time to get it right.
That is why “The Transformation Project: A New Initiative to Improve Advanced Illness Care” is creating a national consortium of leading organizations and individuals to work collaboratively on this issue. The goal is to produce a system that provides quality care consistent with the patient’s goals and values.
Myra Christopher, president and CEO of the Center for Practical Bioethics, and Bill Novelli, Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and former CEO of AARP, are co-directors of the initiative. Judy Peres is the project’s deputy director.
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Sister Rosemary Retires
Rosemary Flanigan, PhD retiring after 24 years at the Center for Practical Bioethics
It’s news no one wants to hear but everyone can understand – Rosemary Flanigan, PhD is retiring from the Center for Practical Bioethics effective this summer.
Dr. Flanigan joined the Center’s staff in 1992 after serving six years on the Center’s board of directors. Previously, she had taught philosophy at Rockhurst University for 17 years before hanging up the chalk. Sister Rosemary had also served on the board of directors at St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City.
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News Release
Podcast, Rosemary Flanigan and Myra Christopher, 14 minutes 3 seconds
Podcast: The Bioethics Channel
Christian Sinclair, MD
Karin Porter-Williamson, MD
July 30, 2010
13 minutes 34 seconds
A new educational tool for palliative care is now available through Humana Press.
It's called Palliative Care: A Case Based Guide, and Bioethics Channel host Lorell LaBoube talks about with Dr. Christian Sinclair of Kansas City Hospice and Dr. Karin Porter Williamson of the University of Kansas Hospital.
Phil Stafford, PhD
July 30, 2010
17 minutes 53 seconcs
Aging is not about time and body, but about place and relationships. That’s the focus of a new book written by Philip Stafford, and he talks about it in this edition of the Bioethics Channel.
Stafford is director of the Center on Aging and Community at Indiana University. The book is entitled, "Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America."
Blog: Practical Bioethics
Summer Johnson, PhD
July 30, 2010
Of course, getting into the business of allocating organs according to a person's societal worth is messy stuff, but there is something just intuitively obvious about this case that suggests that this patient, no matter now medically needy, perhaps should not have received the liver ahead of, um, whoever else was on the list.
The First Annual Blackwood Open
August 31, 2010
11 am Registration and Lunch
Noon tee time
The Deuce at the National Golf Club
6415 N National Drive
Kansas City, MO 64152
Jim Blackwood wasn’t a great golfer, but no one loved the game more than he did. That’s why his long-time golf buddies will host a golf tournament in his memory on August 31, with proceeds to support another passion of Jim’s, the Center for Practical Bioethics.
For more information and to register click here.
If you can't attend but would like to make a contribution to the Center in Jim's name, click here.
