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April 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
In 1999, researchers at the market research firm Gordon S. Black Corp. (now Harris Interactive), Rochester, N.Y., conducted a study to determine the factors and persons that influence physicians' decision to refer their patients to hospice.
August 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Madison, Wis., in partnership with Tellens, a documentary and film production company in Evanston, Ill., conducted research for a documentary video on Dame Cicely Saunders of Great Britain, founder of the modern hospice/palliative care movement.
January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report
Samaritan Hospice, located in Moorestown, N.J., started the SOLO Live Alone Program to provide in-home services to elderly patients without resident caregivers in Camden, Burlington, Gloucester and Mercer counties.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Starting in 1997, the Hospice Federation of Massachusetts developed and disseminated a model for conducting a statewide public awareness campaign for hospice services.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Va., carried out Final Gifts, a national research study of hospice volunteerism.
National Program
Program to foster long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families.
National Program
Communications campaign to improve care and caring near the end of life through activities focusing on advocacy, quality care, and consumer services.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
January 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2003, staff at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Alexandria, Va., conducted a national hospice outcomes project to assess the impact of various treatment strategies on the quality of hospice care.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.