Honoring Choices® Tennessee Works To Make Advance Directives An Employee Benefit Honoring Choices® Tennessee (HCTN) became a member of C-TAC last year because it believes C-TAC’s work at the national level is critical to making Advance Care Planning user-friendly at the state level. Specifically C-TAC’s work toward state reciprocity—ensuring that legal ACP conversations happening in…

A new study in the Journals of Gerontology examines racial disparities in access to advance care planning (ACP) services, offering evidence for interventions by clinicians and institutions to reduce inequities. After conducting 74 interviews across six health systems, researchers concluded that most clinicians avoided ACP with certain racial or ethnic groups, those with limited English…

Do you know what kind of care your loved ones would want if they fell seriously ill right now? Although most people feel confident that they do, without clinical guidance, the likelihood that your choices match your loved one’s choices is only about 50%. Engaging in Advance Care Planning conversations early (before patients get sick)…

We are excited to announce that C-TAC Strategic Advisor Cheryl Matheis will be serving as the 2021-2022 Senior Fellow in Advanced Care and Health Policy with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Matheis will serve a key role in the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy,…

MetaStar is a quality improvement organization with more than 45 years of experience working alongside those in the health care system to improve the quality of health care for all patients. Our health care improvement and consulting services address the need for system-wide innovation and consistent, evidence-based approaches across all settings of care. All of…