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2017 Circle of Life: Providence

The Circle of Life Award, now in its 18th year, celebrates programs across the nation that have made great strides in palliative and end-of-life care. Instead of solely setting up a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient palliative care program for adults and children, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance and Providence TrinityCare Hospice collaborated with the Providence Institute for Human Caring to provide “whole-person care” to every patient – essentially embedding the principles of palliative care throughout its system. Providence believes there is no reason to limit the tenets of palliative care to patients with life-threatening illnesses if others can also benefit from having a more highly personalized approach to their emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual needs, in addition to receiving best-in-class medical treatment. Providence seeks to have an advance directive on the chart before a patient goes to surgery – even for relatively minor procedures. The collaborative focuses on the values, preferences and priorities of patients and their families, and is able to use a data-driven and metrics-backed approach to help replicate holistic care across the seven-state healthcare system.