"Financial Implications of Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care"

Support Files

Agenda   (.pdf)

Brumley Slides   (.pdf)

Byock Slides ("A Strategic Approach to Improving Access to Services & Quality of Care")   (.pdf)

Byock Slides ("Implications of Site-based Demonstrations of Palliative Care")   (.pdf)

Meier Slides   (.pdf)

Micklethwaite Slides   (.pdf)

Stuhl Slides   (.pdf)

Transcript   (.pdf)

Wennberg Slides   (.pdf)

Related Links

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care

Last Acts

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Reports on Hospice Care

MEDLINEplus - Hospice Care

Barriers to Hospice Care: Are We Shortchanging Dying Patients? (09/18/00)

Publications and Reports

"Financial Implications of Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care" 9/9/2002
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Washington, D.C.

This Policy Directions Forum brings together key policy makers and representatives to discuss national implications of recent demonstration projects in end-of-life care and identify next steps toward improving access to services and quality of care for dying Americans and their families.

Welcome by Sen. Max Baucus (Mont.-D)
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"Framing the Problem"
Speakers: Michael Hash, facilitator;Michelle Stuhl; John Wennberg, M.D., director, Center for Evaluation of Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School; and Ira Byock, M.D., director, Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life.
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"Promising/Hopeful/Exciting Strategies: Demonstration Project Panel"
Speakers: Dorothy Deremo, president and CEO, Hospice of Michigan, Detroit; Ashley Micklethwaite, grant program officer, St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin, MO; Dr. Richard Brumley, physician in chief, Kaiser Hospice & Home Health, Downey, CA; Dr. Diane Meier, director, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY.
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"Responder Panel: Consumer Perspective"
Speakers: Ellen Stovall, founder, President National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship; and John Rother, director of policy and strategy, AARP.
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"Responder Panel: Provider and Medicare Perspective"
Speakers: Brad Stuart, M.D., medical director, Sutter VNA & Hospice; and Tom Hoyer, director, Chronic Care Policy Group, Center for Medicare Management.
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"Overview and Summary Discussion" with Michael Hash, Health Policy Alternatives; and "Moving from Research to Policy" with Ira Byock, M.D., director, Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life
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"Question and Answer Session"
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