Beginning of Life
| Education Development Center, Inc.
Enhancing Family-Centered Care for Children Living With Life Threatening Conditions Newton, MA |
To improve pediatric palliative care through the development of a modularized Action Kit. |
$425,000
2 years |
| Institute for Family-Centered Care
Moving Forward With FCC for Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children Bethesda, MD |
To provide information, training, and technical assistance to over 80 hospitals and community healthcare programs. |
$120,000
1 year |
| Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc.
Moving Forward W/Family-Centered Care for Pregnant Women, Infants &Children Augusta, GA |
To implement family-centered care in MCGH's maternity services. |
$90,000
1 year |
End of Life
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Physicians' Emotional Reactions To Patients' Deaths |
To explore how medical socialization shapes the responses of physicians-in-training to death and to dying persons and to develop an intervention to address the problems identified. |
$227,500
2 years |
| Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Living With Death New York, NY |
To produce a four-part series for public television, "Living with Death" with Bill Moyers. |
$500,000
2 years |
| Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
BEST: Best End-Of-Life Strategies and Practices Boston, MA |
To work with a consortium of managed care organizations to identify, disseminate, and advocate for best practices in end-of-life care. |
$144,00
2 years
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| Medical College of Wisconsin
Clergy Education Project To Improve End-Of-Life Care |
To provide clergy the information and training necessary to develop and carry forward an action plan for improving care to the dying. |
$80,000
2 years |
| MultiCare Health System
A Model for Improving Physician Education in End-Of-Life Care Tacoma, WA |
To develop an end-of-life training curricula for family practice physicians and residents |
$125,000
2 years |
| National Institute for Healthcare Research
Spiritually Sensitive Care At The End of Life |
To highlight the need for high-quality research on the spiritual aspects of care and the need to translate the findings of existing research into clinical practice. |
$64,000
2 years |
| New York Academy of Medicine
Community Values in End-Of-Life Care |
To identify and analyze the influence of socio-cultural characteristics, including race, ethnicity, and religion on the differing values, attitudes, and preferences concerning end-of-life care of individuals, families, and communities. |
$71,400
1 year |
| Oregon Health Sciences Foundation
Improving Care of The Dying - Overcoming Barriers & Advancing Gains in End-of-Life Care |
For improved care of the dying in Oregon and nationwide. |
$100,000
3 years |
| Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Jewish Perspectives on End-Of-Life Decision-Making |
To develop interactive educational materials presenting non-Orthodox Jewish perspectives on end-of-life decision-making for proxies and care givers that will incorporate Jewish values and approaches which provide alternatives to traditional Jewish law. |
$67,000
18 months |
| Regents of the University of Michigan
Palliative Care Program Ann Arbor, MI |
To create the Palliative Care Program--a unique, community-wide collaboration between the Hospice of Michigan, an academic health center, and three community hospital systems. |
$270,000
3 years |
Beginning / End of Life
| Center for Law and Social Policy
Devolution, Welfare Reform and Health Care Washington, DC |
To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to protect the health and well-being of indigent children. |
$90,000
1 year |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
State Low-Income Initiative Project Washington, DC |
To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to protect the health and well-being of indigent children, the chronically ill and the elderly. |
$90,000
1 year |
| Families USA Foundation
Medicaid Community Assistance and Public Education Project Washington, DC |
To provide information and technical assistance to state-based public interest groups concerned about Medicaid managed care and state use of SCHIP. |
$90,000
1 year |
| Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Advancing Mental Health Programs for Young Low-Income Children Washington, DC |
To assure that, as states restructure their Medicaid programs, the needs of children with mental health problems are addressed. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Medicare Rights Center, Inc.
Increasing Access To Medicare Home Health & Hospice Benefits for the Terminal Ill New York, NY |
To conduct an educational outreach project to increase access to to and use of home and hospice care among terminally ill patients with Medicare. |
$110,000
2 years |
| National Health Law Program, Inc.
Policy Analysis & Technical Assistance on Changes in Medicaid/Medicare To Legal Advocates Los Angeles, CA |
To continue its collaborative work with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and with 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 recipients. |
$90,000
1 year |
Out of Program
| Center for the Advancement of Health
General Support Washington, DC |
To bring mind/body and behavioral approaches to health and healing into the mainstream of orthodox medicine. |
$250,000
1 year |
| Hastings Center
Possibilities & Limits of Pluralism in Alternative & Conventional Medicine Garrison, NY |
To develop a broad strategy for alternative and conventional medicine to enter into a fruitful dialogue and working relationship. |
$46,000
1 year |