Tennessee End-of-Life Partnership
Dignity, choice, and compassion at every stage of care.
TELP educates and empowers patients, families, and health care professionals across Tennessee to plan ahead, know their options, and honor end-of-life wishes.
Educate
Share existing medical evidence and end-of-life care options with patients, families, and professionals.
Empower
Help individuals plan ahead, make sound decisions, and share their wishes with loved ones and providers.
Support
Back local grass-roots coalitions across Tennessee working to improve end-of-life care statewide.
Individuals facing serious life-threatening illness and approaching death deserve to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion, and to receive care focused on their choices. Health care professionals should discuss end-of-life care options with patients who have advanced progressive or terminal illness. At the Tennessee End of Life Partnership (TELP), we aim to educate and empower patients, families, and health care and other professionals to accomplish this goal.
Tennessee End-of-Life Partnership
Certification workshops across Tennessee
Certification in End of Life Care
TELP Certification in End-of-Life Care Workshop
In the News
Featured Reading
Filing Suit for ‘Wrongful Life’
More Americans are writing end-of-life instructions as the pandemic renders such decisions less abstract. But are medical providers listening? When Elaine Greenberg’s husband, Gerald, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, his specific advance directive — comfort measures only — went unheeded at the hospital where he was treated.
By Paula Span · Published Jan. 22, 2021 · Updated Jan. 26, 2021
Have questions about advance care planning?
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