We are committed to improving end-of-life care for individual patients and their families while supporting fundamental societal change through research, education and advocacy.
The Foundation for End-of-Life Care is a not-for-profit organization established by VITAS Healthcare Corporation. The Foundation was created to improve end-of-life care for individual patients and their families, while supporting fundamental societal change.
The Foundation provides resources to advance the quality of end-of-life care for terminally ill patients and their loved ones through research, education, advocacy and direct assistance.
This lack of access denies patients and their families the medical, social and spiritual support necessary for a quality end-of-life experience.
The Foundation provides resources to advance the quality of end-of-life care through research, education, partnerships and direct assistance.
The Foundation is a founding benefactor of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, supporting the advancement of research, education and caregiving for those near death.
Grants support promising research studies at sites throughout the country, including hospices, teaching hospitals, other providers and academic research centers.
Grants help fund extraordinary expenses outside the realm of hospice care that remain critically important to the comfort and peace of mind of patients and families.
Grants help hospice providers facilitate the development and sharing of best-practice caregiving models and techniques.
The Foundation assists programs including clergy-to-clergy services, grief counseling activities and the annual National Bereavement Teleconference.
Supporting medical education, clinical research, public policy discussion and initiatives designed to advance hospice care.
Some of the most compelling examples of how the Foundation's resources are used involve extraordinary expenses that lie outside the realm of hospice care but remain critically important to a patient's comfort or peace of mind.
For the patient dying in the middle of summer in a stifling apartment, the Foundation provides funds for a window air conditioner.
For another patient, the Foundation makes it possible for beloved family members living at a distance to fly to the patient's bedside in time for final farewells.
An advisory group that includes front-line caregivers evaluates special grant requests to ensure that resources are directed to the most critical needs in a timely fashion.
The Foundation serves as a sustaining source of financial support to nurture fundamental change in the way death, dying and bereavement issues are addressed in our society.
This revolution in the way death is perceived and experienced is encouraged through the funding of an array of initiatives — academic and clinical, philosophical and practical, large and small.
The specific mission of the Foundation is to provide resources to advance the quality of care for terminally ill patients and their loved ones.
The Foundation accepts gifts and grants from corporations, foundations, other organizations and individual donors.
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