Promoting Excellence : Grantees (Demonstration Projects)

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care funds innovative projects of national significance in the field of palliative care. 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.

Particularily targeted are:

• Promoting Palliative Care Excellence in Intensive Care
  Leaders in the critical care field have recently begun to articulate the need for a more comprehensive approach to ICU care--one that includes palliative care. The purpose of this initiative is to encourage this trend.
• 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
• Consolidated listing of demonstration projects and principle investigators
• Sustaining, Exporting & Elevating Grantee Innovations

Results of the Promoting Excellence experience were featured at the 2004 19th Management and Leadership Conference held in Washington D.C. The title of the session was Expanding the Realm of the Possible: Results from The Promoting Excellence Experience.

Consolidated Listing
Special Populations
Specific Diseases
Challenging Settings
Special Opportunity Grants
Sustaining, Exporting & Elevating Grantee Innovations
Promoting Palliative Care Excellence in Intensive Care

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.