Hospice Outreach and Education Project

Title
Hospice Outreach and Education Project
Project Officer(s)
Cindy Massuda
Start Date
End Date
Award
Grant
Description
The goal of the project is to communicate the concept of hospice care to healthcare consumers who meet conditions to be served by hospice yet are unaware of it because of cultural, linguistic, or geographic barriers or lack of appropriate health and/or social service provider communications. The project leverages the experience of Hospice Foundation of America's educational focus through successful use of the internet, webinars, downloadable brochures, and access to experts via email and a toll-free phone number to reach its target audiences.
Funding
$571,000.00
Principal Investigator(s)
Amy Tucci
Project Number
1C0CMS030445/01
Status
The following tasks have been completed for the grant: web-based services that feature video of individuals discussing experiences with hospice, and including advice from healthcare professionals on matters related to end-of-life care; a webcast related to cancer and end-of-life care; outreach brochures written in Spanish and Chinese to increase awareness of hospice to these populations, available for downloading from the website; webinars to underserved and rural populations on end-of-life issues such as cancer and end-of-life care, basics of the hospice Medicare benefit, recruiting and training hospice volunteers, Alzheimer's disease and end-of-life care, helping Veterans at the end of life, and aging and end-of-life issues in the LGBT community; webcasts related to end-of-life issues; and additional web-based services that feature video of individuals discussing experiences with hospice and including advice from healthcare professionals on matters related to end-of-life care.
Awardee Address

1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009
United States

Awardee Name
Hospice Foundation of America, Inc.