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| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Improving The Health-Related Benefits of Low-Income Families |
To assure that limited national and state resources for government-supported health-related programs are invested to protect the health and well being of low-income children. |
$100,000
1 year |
| Center for Law and Social Policy Strengthening Supports for and Linking Benefits To Low-Income Working Families Washington, DC |
To increase the access of young children in low-income working families to the health-related public benefits for which they are eligible. | $100,000 1 year |
| Families USA Foundation, Inc.
Medicaid & CHIP Coverage After Welfare Reform |
To assure that as many children as are eligible are covered by government-supported health insurance and that the health care they receive is of a sufficiently high quality to meet their healthcare needs. |
$100,000
1 year |
| Midwest Academy
Medicare Education and Advocacy Project of USAction |
To keep those who would be affected by changes on the Medicare program informed and involved in public debates as they unfold. |
$75,000
1 year |
| National Health Law Program, Inc.
Child Health Law and Policy Project |
To strengthen the capacity of state-based advocates to improve the accessibility and quality of government-supported healthcare for children. |
$100,000
1 year |
| Stand for Children Leadership Center
General Support |
To provide leadership development training, program development information assistance , and organizing expertise to Stand for Children members, children and others with a specific concern about child health issues. |
$50,000
1 year |
Beginning of Life
| Albert Einstein Healthcare Foundation Patients on The Web: Mothers & Children Gaining Access To Health Information Philadelphia, PA |
To teach mothers-to-be and mothers of young children how to gain access to health-related information on-line, how to evaluate that information, and how to use Internet technologies to facilitate communication with healthcare providers. | $74,400 1 year |
| Boston University Pediatric Department Family-Centered Care Project Boston, MA |
To create an environment in which families are treated with respect, courtesy and an understanding of their cultures in contacts with the medical center's staff. | $50,000 1 year |
| Boston University Trustees
The Learning, Not Waiting Planning Process |
To support a program, which will bring together parents, providers, in-house staff, and outside consultants, to determine content, methods of delivery, and space design for the conversion of Department of Pediatrics waiting areas into dynamic learning rooms. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Communications Consortium Media Center Communications Strategy for Patient-Centered Care Washington, DC |
To develop the press kit for a communications strategy to increase public awareness of the patient-/family-centered "movement" and its potential to improve the quality of health care for patients and their families. | $40,000 3 months |
| Institute for Family Centered Care, Inc. Moving Forward W/FCC for Pregnant Women, Infants and Children Bethesda, MD |
To establish family-centered approaches to care as the standard for maternal and pediatric care. | $120,000 1 year |
| Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center
Furthering Family-Centered Care As The Organizing Force |
To work towards its goal of family-centered pediatric care. | $75,000 1 year |
| New York and Presbyterian Hospitals, Inc. Healthy Steps for Young Children New York, NY |
To expand traditional pediatric care to include the promotion of child development and family nurturing. |
$60,000
1 year |
End of Life
| Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University EOL Education Needs Assessment of African American Physicians Stanford, CA |
To gather data that can assist in modifying existing end-of-life curricula or developing new educational products for use by African American physicians. | $71,500 1 Year |
| Commonweal
Spiritual Hardiness Initiative-2 Year Grant |
To develop, support, and evaluate a national physician discussion group program, Physician Heal Thyself. |
$150,000
2 years |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Physicians' Emotional Reactions To Their Patients' Deaths |
To enable the investigators of Physicians' Emotional Reactions to their Patients' Death to redesign aspects of the study and to hire an additional skilled interviewer to complete newly identified tasks. |
$15,000
1 year |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Physicians' Emotional Reactions To Their Patients' Deaths Boston, MA |
To enable the principal investigators of Physicians' Emotional Reactions to their Patients' Death to redesign aspects of the study and to hire an additional skilled interviewer to complete newly identified tasks. | $15,000 1 year |
| Hastings Center
Increasing Access To Hospice |
To identify the policy and organizational changes necessary to increase access to hospice and to better realize in practice the values underlying the hospice tradition. |
$127,000
1 year |
| Missoula Demonstration Project, Inc.
Renewal Support |
To engage the community of Missoula in an effort to demonstrate that quality of life can be preserved for people who are dying and their caregivers. |
$100,000
1 year |
| North General Hospital Planning Grant to Develop End-of-Life Care Programs for Clergy, Social Workers and Residents of Harlem New York, NY |
To improve the quality of end-of-life care available to African American and Latino American patients and families that live in medically underserved communities. | $77,225 1 Year |
| Partnership for Caring, Inc.
Changing The Course of The Caregiving Crisis |
To build an informed consumer voice at the national and state levels in support of changes in public and private policies that are needed to achieve improved end-of-life care. |
$150,000
1 year |
| Regents of the University of California
Terminally Ill Patients and Their Caregivers: A Dyadic Intervention |
To develop a brief psycho-social intervention for dying patients and their caregivers in order to reduce the psychological distress and improve the spiritual well-being of both the patient and the caregiver. |
$236,000
3 years |
| Research Foundation of State University of New York
Evaluation of National Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Council Program |
To test the efficacy of an innovative, case management approach to delivering quality end-of-life care that promotes peaceful dying. | $200,000 2 Years |
| Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning-McGill University
Development & Implementation of Education, Training and Research |
To improve the quality of life at its end by developing teaching and treatment regimens that combine a concern for the inner life of terminally ill patients with the provision of high quality biomedical care. |
$150,000
3 years |
| University of Rochester
End-Of-Life Teaching Initiative |
To better prepare physicians with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to care for patients facing the end of their lives. |
$136,800
3 years |
| Yale University
Delayed Hospice Enrollment |
To develop interventions that can improve the timing of hospice enrollment and improve bereavement services for caregivers. | $152,000 2 years |
| Zen Hospice Project
A Capacity Building Initiative |
To build the capacity of the Zen Hospice Project to respond to the high volume of inquiries it receives about its work. |
$95,000
1 year |
Beginning / End of Life
| Education Development Center, Inc.
Enhancing FCC for Children Living With Life-Threatening Conditions |
To enable hospitals to provide children living with life-threatening illness and their families the quality of care necessary to support their physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. |
$900,000
3 years |