Beginning of Life
| Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston, MA |
To create a family-centered system of urban pediatric care that focuses on the needs of the whole child and whole family. |
$200,000
over 2 years |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Washington, DC |
To plan and develop new efforts to advance public policies that benefit poor children and their families. |
$35,000
|
| Cornell University New York, NY |
To enable New York Hospital to participate in the Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative. |
$180,000
over 3 years |
| French-American Foundation New York, NY |
For the promotion of systems of care that link health, education, and services for families. |
$43,000
(1997 payment) |
| Institute for Family-Centered Care Bethesda, MD |
For continued support of IFCC's work towards establishing family-centered maternal and child care in hospitals across the country. |
$126,500
|
| Institute for Family-Centered Care Bethesda, MD |
To hire a consultant to provide assistance in fundraising. |
$15,000
|
| Medical College of Georgia Research Institute Augusta, GA |
To advance the implementation of family-centered care in the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics. |
$75,500
|
| Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY |
To support the implementation of family-centered pediatric care at the medical center and at its community-based primary care sites. |
$200,000
over 2 years |
| Vista Community Clinic Vista, CA |
To enable mothers to use community services more effectively to improve the health of their children. |
$33,000
(1997 payment) |
| University of Minnesota Foundation Minneapolis, MN |
For the planning of the "Family Reunion 7: Families and Health" conference. |
$15,000
(1997 payment) |
End of Life
| Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY |
For the Project on Dying, to improve end-of-life care by examining the relationship of the inner-life experience to suffering experienced by the dying and their caregivers, and by examining ways in which such suffering may be lessened. |
$135,000
over 3 years |
| Choice In Dying Washington, DC |
For a national colloquium to improve the ability of clergy to meet the end-of-life needs of their congregants. |
$50,000
|
| Choice In Dying Washington, DC |
For a communications strategy responding to the Supreme Court's decision on physician-assisted suicide. |
$10,000
|
| Commonweal Bolinas, CA |
For In the Service of Life, a continuing education curriculum on detoxifying death for physicians, by the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness. |
$150,000
(1997 payment) |
| Educational Broadcasting Corporation New York, NY |
To conduct research for a four- or five-part television series on "Living with Dying" with Bill Moyers. |
$40,000
|
| George H. Gallup International Institute Princeton, NJ |
To support a study on Spiritual Beliefs and the Dying Process. |
$44,800
|
| Harvard University Boston, MA |
For a study, with the National Opinion Research Center, to determine the kinds of services that would improve the quality of life at the end of life. |
$40,000
(1997 payment) |
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement Boston, MA |
To enable 10 health care provider organizations to include a chaplain or ethicist as a member of their team at the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Improving Care at the End of Life. |
$25,000
|
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD |
To develop interventions for use by clergy, social workers, and doctors to relieve the psycho-spiritual distress of dying patients. |
$95,700
(1997 payment) |
| Missoula Demonstration Project Missoula, MT |
To demonstrate, in practice and through research, that quality of life can be preserved during the dying process and that superior care of patients and their families can be provided in a cost-effective manner. |
$400,000
over 2 years |
| Mount Sinai Hospital School of Medicine New York, NY |
For the second phase of a study to determine why so few African Americans and Hispanic Americans complete advance directives. |
$132,500
|
| National Opinion Research Center Chicago, IL |
For a study, with Harvard University, to determine the kinds of services that would improve the quality of life at the end of life. |
$171,625
(1997 payment) |
| Park Ridge Center Chicago, IL |
To establish the importance of spiritual traditions in improving the end-of-life care of the elderly in long-term care facilities. |
$60,000
(1997 payment) |
| Public Health Hospital Preservation and Development Authority Seattle, WA |
For Death and Dying in Ethnic America, a series of profiles detailing customs, traditions, beliefs, and practices concerning death, dying, and bereavement in ethnic minority communities. |
$49,400
|
Beginning / End of Life
| Arkansas Institute for Social Justice Washington, DC |
For the Welfare/Workfare Organizing Project, to develop and implement strategies to protect the health, safety, and human rights of public assistance recipients in the workfare program in New York City. |
$22,700
|
| Center for Health Policy Development Portland, ME |
To provide training and technical assistance for state policy makers committed to improving the quality of health care for children in foster care. |
$377,300
(1997 payment) |
| Center for Law and Social Policy Washington, DC |
To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to assure that limited national and state resources for health-related programs are invested to protect the health and well-being of low-income children. |
$100,000
|
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Washington, DC |
To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to assure that limited national and state resources for health-related programs are invested to protect the health and well-being of indigent children, the chronically ill, and the elderly. |
$100,000
|
| Families USA Foundation Washington, DC |
To provide information and technical assistance to state-based consumer groups so that they can participate effectively in decisions determining the services available through Medicaid managed care to low-income children under six. |
$75,000
|
| Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Washington, DC |
To assure that the needs of children with mental health problems are addressed as states restructure their Medicaid programs. |
$50,000
|
| National Health Law Program Los Angeles, CA |
To work collaboratively with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and the National Center for Youth Law to increase the capacity of state-based legal advocates to protect the legal rights of low-income Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. |
$100,000
|
| United Hospital Fund of New York New York, NY |
For Family Caregiving in an Era of Change, to recognize the importance of family or informal caregiving in considering health care planning, financing, and delivery. |
$20,000
(1997 payment) |
Out of Program
| National Coalition for Patient Rights Lexington, MA |
For support of a broad-based patient mobilization campaign to protect patients' rights to privacy of medical information. |
$10,000
|
| National Network of Runaway & Youth Services Washington, DC |
To improve the capacity of youth-serving agencies to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations. |
$85,000
|
| Northeast Citizen Action Resource Center Hartford, CT |
For a conference of progressive citizen participation coalitions from across the country. |
$5,000
|
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY |
To determine whether fetal exposure to air pollution and other environmental contaminants contribute to developmental impairment, genetic damage and cancer risk in infants in two low-income communities in New York City. |
$50,000
($25,000 from the environment program) |