Results - Quality/Equality - RWJF

Quality/Equality

1
2
3
4
5
>

Title	Type	Date
A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit 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.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
A Story From a Palliative Care Program for People Dying in Nursing Homes If anything defines the transformation created by the palliative care initiative at the Pines it is the shift in the way staff members view their role in caring for patients, and the results of their greater involvement.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
Establishment of a Culturally Sensitive Rural Hospice Program for Alaska Natives: Ikayurtem Unatai (Helping Hands) 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.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
Project Safe Conduct: Collaborative Interagency Program to Improve End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients and Their Families Case Western Reserve University, in partnership with Hospice of the Western Reserve and the Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospital, created Project Safe Conduct.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
Peer Professional Workgroup Profile: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) 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.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
FOOTPRINTS(sm): Community-Based Hospice Services for Terminally Ill Children and Their Families 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.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
A Story From Project Safe Conduct: Collaborative Interagency Program to Improve End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients and Their Families 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.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
A Story From Pathways of Caring: Model Program to Provide Comprehensive Palliative Care to Veterans The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the largest in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system, and an easy place to get lost in - literally, and medically.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009
A Story from the Pediatric Palliative Care Project 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.	Grant Results Sidebars	11/20/2009

1
2
3
4
5
>

Note: You are viewing results within the Quality/Equality program area.
Visit Publications and research to search or browse all information available from RWJF.