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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), provided $15 million in grants and technical support to innovative programs to change the face of dying in America.

From offices at the Center for Ethics at The University of Montana, this program supported innovative demonstration projects in health care settings and national workgroups comprised of clinicians and researchers from across the country to deliver palliative care to special populations in often challenging settings.

To Improve Health and Health Care Volume VI coverPromoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology "To Improve Health and Health Care Volume VI."

The aim of the (Promoting Excellence) projects is to build models that can be sustained and adopted more widely. Jeanne Twohig, the deputy director of Promoting Excellence, says that in many of those projects that aim is being realized.
- An excerpt from "To Improve Health and Health Care Volume VI."

Read the entire chapter from this anthology titled "The Foundation’s End-of-Life Programs: Changing the American Way of Death."

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was 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.