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Massachusetts Raises Awareness of Hospice Services

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.

Hospice Volunteer Survey Could Lead to Cuts in Programs

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.

Florida Hospice Uses Grant to Improve Outreach, Service to Hispanics

August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report

Staff at the not-for-profit Hospice By The Sea in Boca Raton, Fla., undertook an initiative in early 2002 to increase the number of Hispanic families they serve.

1999 Study Says Hospices Underutilized but Educating Medical Professionals Could Boost Referrals

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.

Documentary to Celebrate the Life of Hospice Pioneer Dame Cicely Saunders

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.

Home Alone: Hospice Program Helps Elderly Who Don't Have Resident Caregivers

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.

Hospice in Largo, Fla., Adds Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Program

May 31, 2007 | Program Result Report

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.

Medicare as Insurance Innovator

September 25, 2012 | Journal Article

Traditional or fee-for-service Medicare has produced many innovations in the payment for health care services, while private insurance has produced a series of benefit design innovations.

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care

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.

Tracking Improvement in the Care of Chronically Ill Patients

June 12, 2013 | Report

A brief from the Dartmouth Atlas Project examines how the care that chronically ill patients received at the end of life changed among hospitals and regions from 2007 to 2010.

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