Jamaica Hospital Medical Center has been named a winner in New York City Tipping Point Challenge. This year-long clinical training competition, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, was established to help healthcare organizations improve the quality of services for people living with serious illnesses. Jamaica Hospital was one of five hospitals in New York City to win this competition.

During this year’s competition, participating NYC-based healthcare organizations were able compete on both the local level and the national level in the Clinical Training category. In this category, participants must achieve the greatest number of CAPC course completions during the timeframe of the competition. Alternatively, they must achieve the greatest number of course completions since becoming a member organization.

“As a CAPC member organization, all Jamaica Hospital Medical Center clinicians were able to take full advantage of CAPC’s online clinical training curriculum,” said Brynn Bowman, CEO of CAPC, and Lauren Green Weisenfeld, Deputy Director of the Healthy Aging Program at the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, in a joint statement. “Over the past year, both palliative care and non-palliative care clinicians across your organization enhanced their skills in communication, pain and symptom management, and support for the all-important family caregiver.”

We congratulate and thank Jamaica Hospital’s palliative care team for making this achievement possible. We look forward to seeing your continued work in providing high-quality palliative care.