BELFAST — Waldo County General Hospital is a winner in the Clinical Training category of the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s (CAPC) third The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge.

WCGH is one of 15 organizations to be recognized as a winner in the Tipping Point Challenge, a national competition designed to drive the spread of skills and improve health care delivery for all people living with serious illness. More than 1,700 organizations competed in the Clinical Training category this year. WCGH was recognized as one of the hospitals to complete the greatest number of CAPC courses since becoming a CAPC member.

Both palliative care and non-palliative care clinicians across the hospital took CAPC classes on communication, pain management, opioid prescribing, symptom management, dementia care and more.

To learn more about the Tipping Point Challenge, and to see the full list of winners, visit: Clinical Training | Tipping Point Challenge (capc.org)

About the Center to Advance Palliative Care

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality, equitable health care for people living with serious illness. As the nation’s leading resource in its field, CAPC provides health care professionals and organizations with the training, tools, and technical assistance necessary to effectively meet this need. CAPC is part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. For more information, visit capc.org and tippingpointchallenge.capc.org, and follow @CAPCpalliative.

Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital is part of MaineHealth, a not-for-profit integrated health system consisting of eight local hospital systems, a comprehensive behavioral healthcare network, diagnostic services, home health agencies, and more than 1,600 employed and independent physicians working together through an Accountable Care Organization. With more than 19,000 employees, MaineHealth is the largest health system in northern New England and provides preventive care, diagnosis and treatment to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire. For more information, please visit wcgh.org.