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August 1, 2006 | Program Result
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.
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 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.
October 14, 2004 | Program Result
The Maine Consortium for Palliative Care and Hospice worked with a range of groups to help provide reliable information that could help craft new legislation to improve end-of-life care in Maine.
October 17, 2008 | 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.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
From 1997 to 2003, RWJF funded a national program called Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care.
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.
June 9, 2008 | Program Result
The West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care encouraged a process of policy change to aid physicians in treating patients at the end of their lives according to patients' wishes and to help patients to make those wishes clear.