Grantees (Demonstration Projects)

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care funded innovative projects of national significance in the field of palliative care. Programs were primarily chosen for their likely ability to substantially improve the quality of care for terminally ill people and their families across a full range of clinical settings.

NOTE: For Promoting Palliative Care Excellence in Intensive Care grantees see the AACN Web site.)

• Baystate Medical Center
• Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation
• Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Corporation
• Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan
• Cooper Green Hospital
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center- Norris Cotton Cancer Center
• Department of Veterans Affairs, West Los Angeles Medical Center
• Henry Ford Health System
• Ireland Cancer Center: University Hospitals & Case Western Reserve University
• Louisiana State University Medical Center
• Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Metro Suburban Area
• Medical University of South Carolina
  
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• PhoenixCare at Hospice of the Valley
• SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
  
• Sutter VNA and Hospice
• University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
• University of California, San Francisco
  
• University of Chicago Medical Center
• University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center
• University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
  
• Volunteers of America, Inc.

Special Opportunity Grants

• Assessment of Education in End-of-Life Care Among Critical Care Medicine Fellows, to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• CALL Care - Building on Organizational and Community Strengths in Providing End-of-Life Care
• Children's International Project on Palliative/Hospice Services (ChIPPS)
• Managing Death in Intensive Care Units (See the AACN Web site.)
• Measuring the Quality of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit, to Rhode Island Hospital
• National Resource Center for Palliative Care in HIV/AIDS
• Peer Mentoring: Improving End-of-Life Planning for End-Stage Renal Patients and Families
• Talking Circles: Palliative Care Networks for Native Americans
• The National Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Council
  

Related Materials

• Appendix: Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care Demonstration Projects (PDF)
• Essential Ingredients for Building Successful Palliative Care Programs (PDF)
• Promoting Palliative Care Excellence in Intensive Care (These demonstration projects may be found at the AACN Web site.)

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.