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"Last Miles Home" 2004 Conference Explores End-of-Life Care for African Americans
Published: Dec 16, 2005
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On February 26–28, 2004, Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., sponsored a conference in Atlanta entitled "The Last Miles of the Way Home: A National Conference to Improve End-of-Life Care for African Americans."
The project was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) national program Targeted End-of-Life Projects Initiative.
Key Results
- More than 320 people attended the conference.
- Conference topics included:
- pain and palliative care
- patient/provider communications
- advance care planning
- hospice care, and others.
- Eleven commissioned papers written on topics related to the most important themes of the conference are planned for release in late 2005 (under RWJF grant ID# 051815). See After the Grant.
Funding
To plan and conduct the conference, RWJF provided a total of $449,997 under two grants: an initial grant to Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care in Tuskegee, Ala. and a subsequent grant to Howard University after the original project director, Marian Gray Secundy, Ph.D., relocated there.
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Listed below are 2 of the grants that supported this project, totaling $419,029.
| Grant | Awarded to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| National conference and community meetings on African-American perspectives on end-of-life care |
Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care (Tuskegee, AL) ID#: 042496 |
Approved award: $450,000 Actual award: $21,447 March 2002 to February 2003 |
| National conference and community meetings on African-American perspectives on end-of-life care |
Howard University College of Medicine (Washington, DC) ID#: 047348 Ethel S. Newman, D.D.S. 202-806-6300 enewman@howard.edu Henry W. Williams, M.D., M.P.H. 202-806-6300 hwwilliams@fac.howard.edu |
Approved award: $428,550 Actual award: $397,582 December 2002 to May 2004 |
RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.
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