Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
National Program
Program to foster long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families.
Advance Care Planning
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Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality
January 12, 2012 | Program Result
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.
Bringing the Table to the Community
December 7, 2011 | Story
The San Francisco partnership created the first-ever plan to improve community-based aging services. A coordinating council reporting to the mayor guided implementation, including bringing aging services into public housing and influencing policy.
Death is Certain, Strategy Isn't
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.
Executive Nurse Fellow Alum Joins Revolution in Care for Dying Children
November 23, 2009 | Story
Jody Chrastek, M.S.N., R.N., C.H.P.N., co-created the first federally funded pilot program to educate nurses and other health providers about pediatric palliative care. The program is now a model for a nationwide project.
The Cost of Dying
November 22, 2009 | Story
CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
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.
Older Patients Get Less Aggressive Treatment, Regardless of Health Status or Their Own Preferences, Study Finds
September 1, 2004 | Program Result
Starting in 1997, investigators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, analyzed the effects of advanced patient age on resource use in hospitals, clinical outcomes for the patient and the cost-effectiveness of selected life-sustaining treatments.
Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.
Peer Professional Workgroup Profile: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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.