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A Partnership of Two NYC Hospitals Trained Providers to Offer End-of-Life Care for Minority Populations in Harlem

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.

Researchers Study End-of-Life Care in Oregon, Issue Report Card, Engage Health Care Professionals to Improve Care

September 1, 2006 | 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.

Quality of Death and Dying is Significantly Higher for People Who Die at Home

September 1, 2006 | 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.

Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care

October 1, 2004 | Program Result

From 1997 to 2003, RWJF funded a national program called Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care.

Taking Steps to Make Palliative Medicine a Subspecialty

October 1, 2004 | 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.

Task Force Identifies Ways to Improve End-of-Life Care Provided by Managed Care Organizations

July 1, 2000 | 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.

Resource Guide for Reporters Covers Issues of Death and Dying

August 1, 2000 | 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.

A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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.

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.

A Story from Project Safe Conduct

May 15, 2008 | 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.

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