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Promoting Excellence Grantees (Demonstration Projects)

• Promoting Excellence Grantees Overview

• Baystate Medical Center
• Bristol Bay
• Cardinal Glennon
• Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
• Cooper Green Hospital
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock
• Department of Veterans Affairs, West Los Angeles Medical Center
• Henry Ford Health System
• Hospice of the Valley/PhoenixCare
• Ireland Cancer Center
• Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (See AACN.org)
• Louisiana State University Medical Center
• Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
• Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (See AACN.org)
• Medical University of South Carolina
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Sutter VNA and Hospice
• University of California - Davis, School of Medicine
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Chicago Medical Center
• University of Michigan's Comprehensive Cancer Center
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (See AACN.org)
• University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center
• University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
• University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Nursing (See AACN.org)
• Volunteers of America

Promoting Excellence National Workgroups

• National Workgroups Overview
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Children's International Project on Palliative/Hospice Services (ChIPPS)
• Cost Accounting
• Critical Care (See AACN.org)
• End-Stage Renal Disease Workgroup
• Huntington's Disease
• HIV / AIDS
• Surgeons

Workgroup Publications:

• Accounting for the Costs of Caring Through the End of Life
  Cost Accounting Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
• Completing the Continuum of ALS Care: A Consensus Document
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
• End-Stage Renal Disease Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
• HIV Care: An Agenda for Change
  HIV/AIDS Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
• Lifting the Veil of Huntington's Disease
  Huntington's Disease Workgroup Recommendations to the Field summary

Palliative Care Tools

• Promoting Excellence Tools
  • Clinical Care Tools
  • Educational Tools
  • Evaluation Tools
  • Organizational Tools
• Key Clinical Assessment and Research Tools

Promoting Excellence Resources

• NPO Products
• Resources (Articles, Audio/Visual, Books, Chapters & Reports)
• Living and Dying Well with Cancer
• Financial Implications of Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
• Advanced Practice Nursing: Pioneering Practices in Palliative Care
• New End-of-Life Benefits Models in Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans
• Integrating Cancer Care and Palliative Care

Special Initiatives

• Journal of Palliative Medicine
  Special Promoting Excellence Series Continues in Journal of Palliative Medicine
• NHPCO Conference Learning Tracks
  Faculty from Promoting Excellence demonstration projects and national workgroups presented sessions at each of the tracks that explored successful approaches to delivering palliative care and highlighted several replicable models of care.

Miscellaneous

• End-of-Life Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
  The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Metro Suburban Area
  has established an innovative mental health-hospice and palliative care partnership to integrate end-of-life care planning into the mental health planning process.

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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.