Presents healthcare providers with a care coordination model for improving end-of-life care and offers patients and their loved ones guidance and support for dealing with advanced illness and death.
A National Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Faith in Action seeks to combine the resources of local faith community and community organizations, such as hospices, to serve their neighbors. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Faith in Action offers start-up grants of $35,000 to help communities organize new caregiver coalitions. Hospices are eligible to apply.
For health care professionals aiming to improve palliative care in their institutional settings, Innovations is an online peer-reviewed journal which also has a standing print presence in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Funded by Last Acts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Innovation's primary goal is to disseminate best practices and support institutional change by a careful examination of the process of implementing successful programs and by offering international and cross-cultural perspectives in each thematic issue.
The American Hospice Foundation provides training and education programs in the workplace, in public and private schools, and in the health care system, with the goal of improving services for grieving and dying Americans of all ages.
For more than 25 years, the Academy has dedicated itself to expanding access of patients and families to high quality palliative care, and advancing the discipline of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, through professional education and training, development of a specialist workforce, support for clinical practice standards, research and public policy. Membership is available to physicians specializing in hospice and palliative medicine, nurses and other health care providers who are committed to improving the quality of life of patients and families facing serious illness.
Welcome to the home page of Hospice Foundation of America. Whether you are looking for general information about hospice, or specific information on the Foundation, we hope you'll find our page informative, interesting and helpful.
The purpose of the HNPA is to exchange information, experiences, and ideas; to promote understanding of the specialties of hospice and palliative nursing; and to study and promote hospice and palliative nursing research
