Clinical Scholars Program
Hospice of the Bluegrass and the Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass
Lexington, KY
About the Site
Hospice of the Bluegrass (HOB), founded in 1978, is a community-based not-for-profit organization, governed by a community board of directors. Accredited by the Joint Commission and certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, HOB provides nationally-recognized hospice and palliative care to approximately 3132 terminally ill adults and children, and their families, each year.
Hospice of the Bluegrass interdisciplinary patient care teams currently serve more than 1000 patients and their families in 23 Kentucky counties each day. Patients and families are served in various environments including home, nursing home, assisted living, acute care hospital and two inpatient Hospice Care Centers. Forty-five percent of the patients served last year had a diagnosis of cancer. The leading non-cancer diagnoses included end-stage heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s Disease and failure to thrive.
The Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass (PCCB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hospice of the Bluegrass provides pain and symptom management to patients on an outpatient basis and through consultations in area hospitals and long term care facilities. In 2006, PCCB palliative care teams made more than 6300 visits and consultations, serving 1121 new patients. Of these new patients 407 were later admitted to our hospice program. Sixty-eight percent of visits occur in the hospital setting, 20% in long term care and 12% in the out-patient Palliative Care Clinic. The Daniel’s Care Program is a pediatric palliative care program with an ADC of 70 patients.
The Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass is one of six premier palliative care programs chosen nationally by the Center to Advance Palliative Care, initially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; to provide site visits, training, and technical assistance to the rapidly growing number of hospices, hospitals, and other organizations seeking to start or strengthen their own palliative care programs.
Sample Schedule
Hospice Medicine Tract
Morning breakfast didactic sessions: Monday - Friday
Hospice Care Center, 17 bed in-patient hospice unit observational work: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Hospice Care Teams, participating in team meetings/ administration, home visits, communication skill sets: Thursday and Friday
Clinical “Grand Rounds”: lunchtime attendance on Wednesday
Palliative Medicine Tract
Morning breakfast didactic sessions: Monday- Friday
Hospital Palliative Care Consult service observational work: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Out-patient Palliative Care Clinic, out-patient palliative care consultation in home/nursing home observational work, communication skill sets: Thursday and Friday
Clinical “Grand Rounds”: lunchtime attendance on Wednesday.
Hospital oncology case studies: breakfast Thursday.
The following faculty will be involved in training visiting physicians:
Todd Cote, MD FAAFP FAAHPM
Salli E. Whisman, MD ABHPM
Charles M. Bernstein, MD ABHPM
Kay Mueggenburg, PhD RN
Location Information
Nearest Airport: Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, KY is approximatley 10 minutes from the Hospice of the Bluegrass office.
Visit this training site's Web site for further information on their programs and services.
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