Nursing Home End-of-Life Care:
The Nursing Home/Hospice Partnership

Successful collaborations are partnerships where care planning, coordination and provision are performed in care environments where:

• Mutual respect dominates;
• Providers routinely share knowledge; and
• Policies and procedures clarify the roles of each collaborating party; but,
• Much unwritten, and importantly, hospice presence, consistency and communication are key – a customer service approach facilitates success.

Partnership Resources:

Executive Summary (PDF)

RWJF Project Final Report (PDF) 

Final Report Appendix (PDF)

Resources & Guidelines

Bibliographies

This web content was published by the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at the Brown Medical School. The project was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ.  Project staff:

Susan C. Miller, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research
Brown University, Box G-ST
Providence, RI  02912
Ph: 401/863-9216
Susan_Miller@Brown.edu

Related NHPCO Publications of Interest

Hospice Care in Nursing Facilities, Volume #2 (Note: Volume #1 is under revision)
item # 700330

Operational Guidance: Hospice and Assisted Living
item # 820928