Particularly targeted are:

• Special Populations of Patients
  including children, American Indian tribes, the seriously mentally ill, veterans, isolated Alaskan villages, rural communities, and urban African American patients.
• Specific Diseases and Terminal Conditions
  including end-stage renal disease, cancers, Alzheimer's and related dementias, and advanced HIV disease complicated by addiction or mental illness.
• Challenging Clinical Settings
  including nursing homes, cancer centers, dialysis centers, large managed care organizations, and maximum-security prisons.
• Other "Special Opportunity" Promoting Excellence Funded Projects

Target audience for PromotingExcellence.org:

• the palliative care, hospice and end-of-life health care community including clinicians and researchers (the primary audience)
• the extended health care community (clinicians, administrators, providers, funders)
• grantees and peer workgroup participants (the internal audience)
• the general public

Features...

• Means to an End: A Report on Dying in America
  Learn about this ground breaking report from Last Acts
• Advanced Practice Nursing: Pioneering Practices in Palliative Care
  Includes a position statement from American nursing leaders
• End-Stage Renal Disease Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
• Financial Implications of Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care Webcast
• Palliative Care By The Surgeon
  Read the latest articles from this monthly series
• RWJF Special Report on Pediatric Palliative Care
• Sustaining, Exporting & Elevating Grantee Innovations
  Profiles of our grantees
• Bibliography and Resource Page for Critical Care End-of-Life Issues
• Charting Your Course
  A whole person approach to living with cancer
• The Comprehensive Care Team
  The Art of Living at the Beginning of the End of Life                                             

For more detailed information, visit the Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care web site:

 Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
www.promotingexcellence.org