Name:
Balm of Gilead: On Our Own Terms Video
Description:
A PBS Special features The Balm of Gilead in the four-part, six-hour series
of intimate stories and conversations exploring choices and decisions to
be made at end-of-life, and end-of-life care issues.
Category:
Educational Tools - Community Education
Source:
Cooper Green Hospital
The Balm of Gilead Center
1515 Sixth Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35233
www.gileadcenter.com
Contact:
Marc Sussman
sussmanm@jccal.org
How the grantee used this instrument:
This symptom sheet was used by Cooper Green project staff administered to palliative
care inpatients to assess and track the level of patient's symptoms.
Keywords:
community engagement, community outreach
To use this tool:
To Order ON OUR OWN TERMS Video Tapes:
The complete, four-part ON OUR OWN TERMS series can be obtained on videotape
from Films of the Humanities 1-800-257-5126. www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/about/index.html.
To view this tool:
Go to: www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms
Posted April 2004
Cooper Green Hospital overview page
# BOG9, type:community_education
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families. Visit PromotingExcellence.org for more resources.