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The UAB Center for Palliative Care is hosting its first annual Artinis on Thursday, September 10^th at Bare Hands Gallery.From 6 to 9 p.m., guests will enjoy complimentary specialty martinis, an array of hors d’oeuvres, and live music from DJ Brett Levine.  Guests will also have a chance to take home a selection of art from local artists, as well as a fully stocked martini. Attire is dressy casual. Tickets online are $35 per person or $60 per couple.  Each ticket includes three complimentary martinis.  Corporate sponsorships start at $500.  Visit www.uab.edu/artinis for more information or call 205.975.0848.  All proceeds will benefit The Art Therapy Partnership of the UAB Center for Palliative Care, an innovative collaboration with VSA arts of Alabama.  Event funds will support art therapy staffing, provide art supplies for projects, and support the Legacy Art Station – a family-friendly art space located on the UAB Palliative and Comfort Care Unit.Members of the Artinis Host Committee include Laura Cardwell, Victor and Tammy Childers, Billy Connelley, Tobin Greene, Heather Herrington, Stephen Howell, David James, Tracy Ormond, Sam and Carla Perna, Rodney Tucker, Eric and Debbie Walker, Jennifer Wood, and Stella Woods.The event is title sponsored by WABM My68, with additional sponsorships by B&A Warehouse, Fire & Ice, and Rojo.

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The UAB Center for Palliative Care will hold its seventh annual event, “Passion for Compassion,” on Friday, January 30th 2009 at 6:00pm.

The event will honor Louis and Wadia Josof for their tireless advocacy and generous support of our program and the patients we serve.

Event details to follow.

The UAB Center for Palliative Care has been named a recipient of a 2009 Circle of Life Citation of Honor from the American Hospital Association. 

The Circle of Life Award honors programs that:

• are striving to equitably provide effective, patient-centered, timely, safe, and efficient palliative and end-of-life care
• are striving to implement the preferred practices for palliative and hospice care quality identified by the National Quality Forum consensus report
• show innovation and serve as models for the field
•  support hospitals’ and health organizations’ efforts to improve palliative and end-of-life care
• build awareness of the importance of serving patients near the end of life well and supporting those close to them
• are actively working with other health care organizations and the community across the continuum of care

Additional information can be found at www.aha.org.  A printer-friendly version of the press release can be found here.

Dr. Rodney Tucker, Medical Director of the UAB Palliative and Comfort Care Unit, was recently featured in a Washington Post article on the impact of technology and life and death decisions.

Download the entire article here:  Washington Post Article – April 24, 2008.

The Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care has multiple job openings.   For more information visit this link.

The UAB Center for Palliative Care has received funding from the Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) for the Alabama Geriatric Education Center Grant Program. This program will train health professionals in medicine, nursing, physical therapy, psychology, dentistry and social work in the following Institute of Medicine identified priority areas: advanced illness, frailty, care coordination, symptom management, medication management, ethnogeriatrics, and health literacy/self management. Detailed information about the program can be found here.

The UAB Center for Palliative Care has been selected as one of eight training sites for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Clinical Scholars Program. This program is designed to provide a focused clinical experience in hospice and palliative medicine to physicians. Read the full press release.

Dr. F. Amos Bailey, Director of the Birmingham VMAC Safe Harbor Palliative Care Unit and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). The Academy is the professional organization for physicians committed to improving the quality of life for patients and families facing serious illness. Click here for the full press release.