Posted on: January 8, 2016
Written by: Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
2015 was a whirlwind year for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, and thanks to support from our members… we were able to get a lot of things done!
If we tried to capture all of our accomplishments in one web page you’d have to do a lot of reading. Instead, we put together this handy list of highlights.
CCCC members are a big part of what makes this all possible. Sign up as a CCCC member in 2016!
Accomplishments in 2015, by the Numbers
| Number | Accomplishment |
| 466 | Valued members of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California |
| 2 | Bills sponsored in the State Legislature: SB 19 (establishes pilot project to create an electronic POLST registry) and AB 637 (allows NPs and PAs to sign POLST forms in 2016) |
| 2 | Bills signed into law! |
| 250,000+ | POLST forms ordered through Med-Pass (and countless more downloaded from caPOLST.org) |
| 1 | New area of focus: pediatric palliative care |
| 320+ | Attendees at the Annual Summit |
| 27 | POLST and advance care planning coalitions throughout the state |
| 1 | Fantastic accolade for the work of CCCC’s new consulting service |
| 86 | Percentage of your generous contributions that are spent on CCCC program activities |
| 0 | Percentage of CCCC’s operating budget that comes from the State of California |
| 9 | In-depth reports and resources produced in 2015, including Dying in California, Thinking Ahead Matters, Value Snapshots, Snapshots of Palliative Care Practices, and CARE Recommendations 2015 |
| 1,252 | Palliative care webinar attendees |
| 7 | Stakeholder meetings and policy discussions held with the Department of HealthCare Services on Medi-Cal’s implementation of palliative care (SB 1004) |
| 1 | New language added to Decision Guides series (Vietnamese) |
| 142 | Healthcare professionals trained in advance care planning, or POLST or cultural congruency |
| 5 | New staff members added |
| 109 | People who shared why “Advance care planning is important” on Facebook at the CCCC Annual Summit |
| 71 | Posts to the CCCC Blog, including 1 awesome blog post about a physician and his palliative care dogs |
