I'm pleased to announce that the Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care archive of materials is now available on the web as a Growth House service. The site can be reached both at http://promotingexcellence.org and at http://promotingexcellence.growthhouse.org.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes to improve health care for dying people and their families. Through the work of innovative demonstration projects and national workgroups the project strived to address particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care. The Promoting Excellence project was a time-limited project and no longer operates. The results of its work are archived by Growth House, Inc. for the ongoing benefit of the field.
From offices at the Center for Ethics at The University of Montana, this program supported innovative demonstration projects in health care settings and national workgroups comprised of clinicians and researchers from across the country to deliver palliative care to special populations in often challenging settings. One of the most popular sections of the site has been its collection of key clinical assessment and research tools.
During the time the project was active, it used Growth House's content management system to develop their collection of materials. After the project's active phase ended an archival version of the site was maintained for some time by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). When NHPCO's stewardship came to an end, Growth House accepted a request to keep the archive alive. I'm delighted to say that this large collection of materials, which now includes over 1,400 pages and downloadable files, has come back home to Growth House. I want to personally thank both the original National Program Office leadership and the technical staff at NHPCO for their assistance during the conversion effort to get the site up and running on our systems.
