Health Program Grants: Grants: Year 1998

Grants: Year 1998

Beginning of Life

Education Development Center, Inc. Enhancing Family-Centered Care for Children Living With Life Threatening Conditions Newton, MA	To improve pediatric palliative care through the development of a modularized Action Kit.	$425,000 2 years
Institute for Family-Centered Care Moving Forward With FCC for Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children Bethesda, MD	To provide information, training, and technical assistance to over 80 hospitals and community healthcare programs.	$120,000 1 year
Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc. Moving Forward W/Family-Centered Care for Pregnant Women, Infants &Children Augusta, GA	To implement family-centered care in MCGH's maternity services.	$90,000 1 year

End of Life

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Physicians' Emotional Reactions To Patients' Deaths Boston, MA	To explore how medical socialization shapes the responses of physicians-in-training to death and to dying persons and to develop an intervention to address the problems identified.	$227,500 2 years
Educational Broadcasting Corporation Living With Death New York, NY	To produce a four-part series for public television, "Living with Death" with Bill Moyers.	$500,000 2 years
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care BEST: Best End-Of-Life Strategies and Practices Boston, MA	To work with a consortium of managed care organizations to identify, disseminate, and advocate for best practices in end-of-life care.	$144,00 2 years
Medical College of Wisconsin Clergy Education Project To Improve End-Of-Life Care Milwaukee, WI	To provide clergy the information and training necessary to develop and carry forward an action plan for improving care to the dying.	$80,000 2 years
MultiCare Health System A Model for Improving Physician Education in End-Of-Life Care Tacoma, WA	To develop an end-of-life training curricula for family practice physicians and residents	$125,000 2 years
National Institute for Healthcare Research Spiritually Sensitive Care At The End of Life Rockville, MD	To highlight the need for high-quality research on the spiritual aspects of care and the need to translate the findings of existing research into clinical practice.	$64,000 2 years
New York Academy of Medicine Community Values in End-Of-Life Care New York, NY	To identify and analyze the influence of socio-cultural characteristics, including race, ethnicity, and religion on the differing values, attitudes, and preferences concerning end-of-life care of individuals, families, and communities.	$71,400 1 year
Oregon Health Sciences Foundation Improving Care of The Dying - Overcoming Barriers & Advancing Gains in End-of-Life Care Portland, OR	For improved care of the dying in Oregon and nationwide.	$100,000 3 years
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Jewish Perspectives on End-Of-Life Decision-Making Wyncote, PA	To develop interactive educational materials presenting non-Orthodox Jewish perspectives on end-of-life decision-making for proxies and care givers that will incorporate Jewish values and approaches which provide alternatives to traditional Jewish law.	$67,000 18 months
Regents of the University of Michigan Palliative Care Program Ann Arbor, MI	To create the Palliative Care Program--a unique, community-wide collaboration between the Hospice of Michigan, an academic health center, and three community hospital systems.	$270,000 3 years

Beginning / End of Life

Center for Law and Social Policy Devolution, Welfare Reform and Health Care Washington, DC	To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to protect the health and well-being of indigent children.	$90,000 1 year
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities State Low-Income Initiative Project Washington, DC	To increase the capacity of state-based public interest organizations to protect the health and well-being of indigent children, the chronically ill and the elderly.	$90,000 1 year
Families USA Foundation Medicaid Community Assistance and Public Education Project Washington, DC	To provide information and technical assistance to state-based public interest groups concerned about Medicaid managed care and state use of SCHIP.	$90,000 1 year
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Advancing Mental Health Programs for Young Low-Income Children Washington, DC	To assure that, as states restructure their Medicaid programs, the needs of children with mental health problems are addressed.	$50,000 1 year
Medicare Rights Center, Inc. Increasing Access To Medicare Home Health & Hospice Benefits for the Terminal Ill New York, NY	To conduct an educational outreach project to increase access to to and use of home and hospice care among terminally ill patients with Medicare.	$110,000 2 years
National Health Law Program, Inc. Policy Analysis & Technical Assistance on Changes in Medicaid/Medicare To Legal Advocates Los Angeles, CA	To continue its collaborative work with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and with the National Center for Youth Law to increase the capacity of state-based legal advocates to protect the legal rights of low-income Medicaid and Medicare recipients.	$90,000 1 year

Out of Program

Center for the Advancement of Health General Support Washington, DC	To bring mind/body and behavioral approaches to health and healing into the mainstream of orthodox medicine.	$250,000 1 year
Hastings Center Possibilities & Limits of Pluralism in Alternative & Conventional Medicine Garrison, NY	To develop a broad strategy for alternative and conventional medicine to enter into a fruitful dialogue and working relationship.	$46,000 1 year