Education Partnership With CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care

Starting in 2016, the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California partnered with CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care to develop self-paced, continuing education courses for healthcare professionals on the topic of advance care planning. These courses have now been thoroughly updated and revised with the latest research, tools, and concepts in mind.

These courses are ideal for all health professionals, including primary palliative care clinicians (physicians, PAs, and nurse practitioners) working with seriously ill individuals in any care setting.

Press Release: CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care and Coalition for Compassionate Care of California Refresh Advance Care Planning Education (4/16/25)

Effective Advance Care Planning Fundamentals

Advance care planning empowers patients to identify what gives their life meaning and articulate the kind of healthcare treatments they would want, or not want, if a catastrophic event or illness leaves them unable to speak for themselves. This course provides a comprehensive overview of advance care planning that can be used to orient and train all staff regarding the importance of documenting care preferences. 

New, expanded content:

  • Maximizing benefits of advance care planning
  • Critiques of advance care planning and overcoming barriers
  • Legal requirements for advance directives
  • Distinctions among advance directives
  • Distinction between advance directives and medical orders (POLST, DNR)
  • Resources and tools

24/7 Online Training
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Includes 1 CE or CME
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Facilitating an Advance Care Planning Conversation

This 1-hour course delivers strategies for conducting advance care planning discussions with patients and families by focusing on their goals and what matters most to them. Learn when and how to confidently begin advance care planning conversations, and apply concepts and skills through interactive activities.

New, expanded content:

  • Culturally sensitive conversations about illness and the end of life
  • Managing emotions
  • When family members disagree
  • Advance care planning tools
  • Advance care planning and responding to requests to hasten death

24/7 Online Training
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Includes 1 CE or CME
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Integrating Advance Care Planning Into Your Medical Practice

Advance care planning conversations help patients consider and document the treatment choices they would make if they could no longer speak for themselves. Such conversations are a routine part of healthcare, but guiding patients through them takes skill and a framework of support. This 2-hour course outlines how to integrate advance care planning into your daily work, using best practices to improve patient and practice outcomes.

New, expanded content:

  • Samples and tools for assessing and improving ACP practices
  • Latest research on clinical and administrative benefits of ACP
  • New resources for staff and patient education

24/7 Online Training
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Includes 2 CE or CME
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Billing for Advance Care Planning Conversations

This online course explores strategies to encourage patient participation in advance care planning conversations. Case studies illustrate how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in various scenarios, followed by an interactive exercise to help students apply the knowledge learned in the course.

Updates and detail added:

  • Using Medicare billing codes
  • Proper documentation
  • Special requirements and regulations

24/7 Online Training
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Includes 1 Continuing Education Hour
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Palliative Care for Care Managers

Care managers have an important role to play in helping health plans ensure that their members get the right care at the right time. Optimizing quality of care, maximizing member satisfaction and connecting to available community resources are all challenges that fall squarely on care managers.

In this course, learners will benefit from the comprehensive curriculum offered online to suit personal schedules. The course covers current medical trends; best practices in communicating with empathy, and attention to the social, emotional and spiritual needs of health plan members.

This program has been pre-approved by the Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to Certified Case Managers (CCMs).

24/7 Online Training
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Includes 20 CEs for Certified Case Managers
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