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January 29, 2002 | Program Result
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.
May 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast trained volunteers to provide services for the frail elderly and people with chronic and terminal illnesses in Pinellas County, Fla.
National Program
Program to foster long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result
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.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
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.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation created Ikayurtem Unatai (Helping Hands), a palliative care program for Native Alaskans living in the 34 villages that comprise Bristol Bay.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine established FOOTPRINTS to serve children who were terminally ill and their families.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The ALS Workgroup was one of eight peer professional workgroups formed by national program office staff to bring medical leaders together to generate new ideas for their fields.