Joy Cresci, RN
Regional Director
(541) 222-3573
jcresci@peacehealth.org


Local initiatives include:

PeaceHealth Oregon Region - Sacred Heart Medical Center, Eugene, Oregon  

• Interdisciplinary palliative care service blended with RN care manager/clinical coordinator and hospitalist roles.  Decentralized to the service line level.  Palliative care physician order set and patient/family information/teaching packet.
• Palliative care physician consultation service
• Palliative care staff education program
• Music thanantology
• No One Dies Alone volunteer program
• Comfort care room, palliative care quilts, Handprint project, memory boxes
• Community-based hospice program
• Bereavement program - hospital- and hospice-based

St. John Medical Center - Longview, Washington  

• Supportive care carts - unit-specific carts with comfort items for patients and families in the dying process
• Patient care rounds/family conferences for palliative care/end-of-life patients
• Robust grief and bereavement program - hospital- and hospice-based

PeaceHarbor Hospital - Florence, Oregon   

• Multidisciplinary project sponsored by Ethics Committee to promote working across the continuum for improved palliative care in the hospital setting
• Hospice consultation to hospital patients and support for nursing staff in the hospital in symptom management

St. Joseph's Hospital - Bellingham, Washington  

• Hospice nurse participates in interdisciplinary care conferences on nursing units
• Palliative care physician consult service through Hospice medical director
• Comfort care order set and family brochure
• Monthly advance directive workshops offered to the community