“The CCCR provision is a vital piece of legislation that the pediatric hospice and palliative care community has been championing for years. The Toolkit is a comprehensive resource to guide providers, legislators and families to implement the provision as well as to strategize options for all children with serious illness, and represents a tremendous step forward for children with life-threatening conditions,” said Sarah Friebert, MD, Director of the Haslinger Division of Pediatric Palliative Care at Akron Children's Hospital.

Concurrent Care for Children: Implementation Toolkit provides information on the options available to states that are implementing Section 2302 or are considering expansion of pediatric palliative care services to children.

Inspired by the vision of the late Dr. Carlos Gomez, one of the founders of the District of Columbia Pediatric Palliative Care Collaboration, the Concurrent Care for Children: Implementation Toolkit is available online as a free resource on the NHPCO website.

NHPCO gratefully acknowledges the District of Columbia Pediatric Palliative Care Collaboration for their generous funding to make this valuable resource available to the entire pediatric palliative care field.

NHPCO’s Children’s Project on Palliative/Hospice Services (ChiPPS), a pediatric leadership council created in 1998, has been committed to making the best-known practices in pediatric palliative and hospice care more widely available to care providers and increasing the availability of state-of-the-art services to families.

To learn more about pediatric palliative and hospice care or to download the Toolkit, please visit nhpco.org/pediatrics.

Contact:
Jon Radulovic
NHPCO, Vice President of Communications
703-837-3139
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