MLK Denominational Home Joins C-TAC
Martin Luther King’s Denominational Home Joins Coalition to Transform Advanced Illness Care
With over 2.5 million members, the Progressive National Baptist Convention teams up with the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and its Faith-Based Initiative
At its recent annual session, the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC) passed a resolution to join the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and support its vision that all Americans with advanced illness, especially the sickest and most vulnerable, will receive comprehensive, high-quality, person- and family-centered care that is consistent with their goals and values and honors their dignity.
“C-TAC is honored to have the Progressive National Baptist Convention join our Faith-Based Initiative,” said Bill Novelli, Co-Chair of C-TAC, a professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, and former CEO of AARP. “The PNBC has shown that improving care for some of our society’s sickest people is a mission shared by the members of the faith community.”
The C-TAC Faith-Based Initiative is co-chaired by the Rev. Dr. Tyrone S. Pitts, immediate past General Secretary of the PNBC. “The PNBC has long been the home of leaders such as Dr. King and others in the civil rights movement who want to improve the lives of the vulnerable in our society,” says the Rev. Pitts; he continues, “Advanced illness care today is a major human rights issue of our generation and I’m proud that the PNBC is partnering with this new Coalition in helping people get the care they want and need.”
C-TAC’s Faith-Based Initiative is working on faith/spiritual issues as they relate to the C-TAC’s four areas of focus in public engagement, professional education, policy advocacy and clinical models development. This work includes:
- Identifying and promulgating best-practice, faith community care models
- Incorporating spiritual care into inter-professional health provider curriculum for advanced illness care.
- Developing position papers that articulate the necessity of recognizing and relieving spiritual suffering, improving care for people with advanced illness.
“With traditions that promote the spiritual growth of the individual, the PNBC is well positioned to partner with C-TAC in ensuring that the deepest values and goals of the person and families living with advanced illness are honored and respected,” said Rev. Pitts.
About the PNBC
The Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. is the third largest African American Baptist Convention, with over 2.5 million members and over 2,000 churches. The PNBC is an association of Baptist churches throughout the world and is committed to the mandate of making Disciples of Christ. The Convention is founded on the precepts of fellowship, progress, service, and peace and seeks to affirm the “priesthood of all believers.”
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C-TAC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Washington, D.C. The Board of Directors includes Tom Koutsoumpas, Board Co-Chair and Executive Director, Mintz Levin Center for Health Law & Policy; Bill Novelli, Board Co-Chair andProfessor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, and former CEO of AARP; Myra Christopher, Board Treasurer, and former CEO and President, Center for Practical Bioethics; Alexandra Drane, President and Co-Founder, Eliza Corporation; Bud Hammes, Director of Medical Humanities, Gundersen Health System; Thomas Higgins, President and CEO, Prosetta Corporation; Randy Krakauer, MD, National Medical Director of Medicare, Aetna; David Longnecker, MD, Director, Association of American Medical Colleges; Cynda Hylton Rushton, Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Charlie Sabatino, Director, ABA Commission on Law and Aging; Don Schumacher, President and CEO, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; Brad Stuart, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Sutter Care at Home; and Jeff Weiss, Founder and Director of Center for Corporate Innovation. Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association, and Jennie Chin Hansen, CEO, American Geriatrics Society, are Co-Chairs of C-TAC’s Steering Committee.