March 4 Round-up: End-of-Life Care Topics

• The second edition of the Palliative Care Grand Rounds is available on the Dethmama Chronicles blog. This "monthly blog carnival" the Grand Rounds highlights blog posts related to hospice and palliative care.

• Pallimed posts about the effects of the financial crisis on the George Mark Children's House, the first dedicated pediatric inpatient hospice facility in the United States.

• The Compassionate Friends has announced their Compassionate Employer Recognition for 2009. One hundred forty one employers were selected for "showing extra sensitivity to bereaved employees following the death of a child."

• This site has some good information on California's adoption of POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment). Here are more resources on different state's use of POLST, hosted by the Oregon Health & Science University.