Promoting Excellence : Grantees

The Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care National Program Office funds innovative projects of national significance selected from a pool of almost 700 letters of intent. Programs were primarily chosen for their likely ability to substantially improve the quality of care for terminally ill people and their families across a full range of clinical settings.

Listing of Demonstration Projects and Principal Investigators

Particularly targeted are:

• Special Populations of Patients
  including children, American Indian tribes, the seriously mentally ill, veterans, isolated Alaskan villages, rural communities, and urban African American patients.
• Specific Diseases and Terminal Conditions
  including end-stage renal disease, cancers, Alzheimer’s and related dementias, and advanced HIV disease complicated by addiction or mental illness.
• Challenging Clinical Settings
  including nursing homes, cancer centers, dialysis centers, large managed care organizations, and maximum-security prisons.
• Other "Special Opportunity" Promoting Excellence Funded Projects
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Promoting Excellence in End of-Life Care is a National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families. Visit PromotingExcellence.org for more resources.