October 15, 2009
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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.
July 29, 2009
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Program Result
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing conducted 15 training conferences designed to enable nursing school faculty to integrate instruction on end-of-life care into their schools' curricula.
April 30, 2009
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Program Result
Joan Teno of the Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, R.I., analyzed existing data, interviewed bereaved family members and conducted surveys to assess end-of-life care provided in private homes, nursing homes and hospitals.
November 24, 2008
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Program Result
The American Hospital Association developed and implemented an annual awards program to recognize organizations providing exemplary end-of-life care.
October 17, 2008
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Program Result
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and North General Hospital trained physicians to provide culturally sensitive palliative and hospice care to underserved, minority populations and to provide such care to residents of Harlem and other communities.
June 1, 2006
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Program Result
The May 4, 2000, episode of "ER" on NBC contained a story line involving Dr. Greene's father's peaceful death while in hospice care at home. An October 19, 2000, episode of "ER" focused on the importance of having advance directives in place.
June 1, 2006
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Program Result
A project team headed by Richard Payne, M.D., created a new curriculum that teaches essential clinical competencies and practical skills needed to provide culturally appropriate palliative and end-of-life care to African Americans.
July 1, 2006
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Program Result
Joan M. Teno, M.D., M.S., led a team of researchers from Brown University and other institutions in creating a toolkit of instruments to measure the quality of care for dying patients and their families.
July 1, 2006
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Program Result
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., Boston, organized a two-day National Consensus Conference on Medical Education for Care Near the End of Life in 1997 and subsequent dissemination efforts.
September 1, 2006
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Program Result
The Oregon Health Sciences University disseminated information on end-of-life care in a variety of ways and cultivated networks of health care professionals to promote improved end-of-life care through policy change.
