"From pediatric palliative service to a comprehensive complex care center, our team translates our love for these children into a population health model for all."
Those are the words of Christian Paine, chief of pediatric palliative care at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, after the hospital's palliative and complex care team won a bronze award in the national Tipping Point Challenge for its work with children in Mississippi's only children's hospital.
The Center to Advance Palliative Care explains that "high-quality care for the millions of people living with serious illness means that clinicians from all specialties and disciplines must provide effective, patient-centered communication and pain and symptom management, and that patients with the most complex needs must have access to palliative care specialists."
Children's of Mississippi's palliative and complex care team "champions the palliative care philosophy of interdisciplinary care for the whole person and family," social worker Neece Little tells the Clarion-Ledger.
The team works with more than 80 patients living with mechanical ventilation, and it also runs a population health coordination center.
"This honor in the Tipping Point Challenge is a testament to the Children's of Mississippi palliative and complex care team as a whole," Paine says.
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