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State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 24: Policies to Address Disparities in End-of-Life Care Dedicated to the memory of Marion Gray Secundy, this issue explores gaps in care and policy that lead to unequal treatment. People of color, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty or rural areas experience barriers that often prevent them from...	Issue and policy briefs	04/03/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 17: Barriers to Hospice Care and Some Proposed Policy Solutions This brief explores the major policy barriers to patient access and the financial viability of what is universally recognized as the gold standard for end-of-life care.	Issue and policy briefs	04/03/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 25: Thirty-Five Leaders Map the Future of Reform Although many advances have been made in the end-of-life movement, more remains to be achieved. This brief, the final one of the series, outlines the challenges ahead.	Issue and policy briefs	05/26/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 20: Maine's Legislative Approach to Expanding Hospice Access A poor and largely rural state, Maine seemed destined to remain at or near rock bottom nationally for hospice utilization-until the spring of 2001 when bold action by the state Legislature laid a foundation for change.	Issue and policy briefs	04/03/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 18: Using Statistics to Shape Agendas and Measure Progress While reformers continue to draw inspiration from their own personal and professional experiences, the use of statistics to shape agendas and measure progress is becoming more widespread. This publication provides examples of data-driven reform, lists good sources...	Issue and policy briefs	04/03/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 19: Championing End-of-Life Care Policy Change This issue of State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care explores the program's primary policy accomplishments, as well as the nontraditional activities and processes that enabled the coalitions to engage their publics and to change policy and culture in their...	Issue and policy briefs	04/03/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 3: Implementing End-of-Life Treatment Preferences Across Clinical Settings The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form is widely used in Oregon to insure continuity of care and adherence to advance care planning across settings.	Issue and policy briefs	03/31/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 9: How End-of-Life Care Can Be a Positive Issue for Policy Leaders Political leadership exists that has found end-of-life care a positive issue with virtually no political downside, because every single constituent in these leaders' districts benefits from good end-of-life-care policy.	Issue and policy briefs	04/03/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 6: How Regional Long-Term Care Ethics Committees Improve End-of-Life Care Although nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are regularly confronted with wrenching bioethical dilemmas, few have the resources to establish real, in-house ethics committees. Regional longterm care ethics committees are one way to fill this gap.	Issue and policy briefs	03/31/2006
State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care: Issue 5: Promising Educational Initiatives for Staff, Regulators and Families The first of four briefs examining different approaches to long-term care reform.	Issue and policy briefs	03/31/2006

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