For several years, there has been an informal group of palliative medicine physicians, who work in hospitals and in hospices, that have gathered. Seeing the rise of other local and state groups for palliative medicine doctors, we were inspired to do something more formal and make a broader impact outside of the care we deliver each day.
Our Mission
to enhance and support the practice of palliative medicine for physicians in the Kansas City metropolitan area through education, collaboration, advocacy, and shared activities.
“Do good work and share it with others.”
What OuR Members HAVE Achieved
- One of the Midwest's first hospice and palliative medicine fellowships (2005)
- Opening multiple inpatient hospice units in the KC Metro
- Establish outpatient palliative care clinics
- Leadership in social and digital media in the field of palliative care
- Two physicians named to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's '40 under 40'
- Federal and State advocacy efforts on behalf of palliative care and hospice
- Support for the Transportable Physician Orders of Patient Preference (POLST paradigm)
- Weekly lecture series on hospice and palliative care topics for area professionals
- Research published in JAMA, NEJM and palliative care journals
- Leadership in national organizations (Institute of Medicine, AAHPM)
- Multiple national and international speakers
- Teaching primary palliative care to countless local physicians, residents, medical students, and other health care professionals
- Pediatric hospice and palliative care programs