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.
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.
September 1, 2006
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Program Result
The investigators administered the Quality of Dying and Death questionnaire to more 200 family members of individuals who died in Missoula County, Mont., in 1996 and 1997.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result
From 1997 to 2003, RWJF funded a national program called Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result
Between 2001 and 2003, the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Silver Spring, Md., implemented an accreditation process for fellowship training programs in palliative medicine.
July 1, 2000
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Program Result
The purpose of this project was to encourage better terminal and palliative care for the growing number of Medicare, Medicaid and commercial beneficiaries being served by managed care organizations.
August 1, 2000
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Program Result
In 1997, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation in Washington produced and disseminated a journalists' resource guide on end-of-life issues.
May 15, 2008
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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.
May 15, 2008
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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.
May 15, 2008
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Program Result
A large portion of the Safe Conduct team's efforts takes the form of gentle and persistent probing for problems that patients choose to keep to themselves.