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September 25, 2012 | Journal Article
Traditional or fee-for-service Medicare has produced many innovations in the payment for health care services, while private insurance has produced a series of benefit design innovations.
National Program
Program to foster long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families.
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.
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.
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
If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.
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.
December 1, 1998 | Program Result
In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.
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.