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Oncology Nursing
Society
Special Contact: Karen
Stanley
501 Holiday Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749
(412) 921-7373
(909) 624-4816
ONS is a national organization of more than 29,000
registered nurses and other healthcare professionals
dedicated to excellence in patient care, teaching,
research, administration and education in the field of
oncology. The mission of ONS is to promote excellence
in oncology nursing and quality cancer care. ONS
works to fulfill this mission by providing nurses and
healthcare professionals with access to the highest
quality educational programs, cancer care resources,
research opportunities, and networks for peer support.
The vision of ONS is to lead the transformation of cancer
care. ONS pursues this vision by initiating and
actively supporting educational, legislative, and public
awareness efforts to improve the care of people
with cancer.
Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for
the Dying
Contact: Karen Orloff
Kaplan, MPH, ScD
President and CEO
1035 30th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 338-9790
(202) 338-0242 fax
Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying
is a not-for-profit coalition of consumers and health
care professionals. Its goals are to increase consumers'
expectations about care at the end-of-life and to help
them attain that care. Among other programs, it helps
people select health care agents and helps their agents
make good decisions for them. Partnership also provides
a wide variety of materials and programs about
end-of-life issues for consumers and
professionals.
Project on Death in America
Open Society
Institute
(Pdia@sorosny.org)
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
PDIA is a program of the Open Society Institute, a private
operating and grantmaking foundation. PDIA's
mission is to understand and transform the culture and
experience of dying and bereavement through initiatives
in research, scholarship, the humanities, and the
arts, and to foster innovations in the provision of care,
public education, professional education, and public
policy. PDIA has funded several initiatives which
include: the PDIA Faculty Scholars Program; Professional
Initiatives in Nursing, Social Work, and Pastoral
Care; Arts and Humanities; Public Policy; Legal;
and Community based Initiatives. Please refer to the
PDIA web site for current funding initiatives.
Promoting Excellence in End-Of-Life Care
Contact: Julie Emnett
Director of Communications: Public Relations/Outreach
Practical Ethics Center
The University of Montana
1000 E. Beckwith
Missoula, MT 59812
(406) 243-6668
The Promoting Excellence in End-Of-Life Care
National Program Office (NPO) is funded by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This $12 million
initiative was established to foster long term changes
in health care institutions to improve care for the
dying. To date, the NPO has funded 22 innovative
projects of national significance, selected primarily
for their likely ability to substantially improve the
quality of care for terminally ill people and their
families. These projects will improve access to comprehensive
palliative care across a full range of clinical
settings for patients with a terminal
prognosis.
Public Agenda
6 E. 39th Street
New York, N.Y. 10016
(212) 686-6610
Public Agenda is a national nonpartisan public opinion research organization
whose website contains indepth information on the right to die.
Publications include: At Death's Door: What are the Choices?. by Michael
deCourcy Hinds (A National Issues Forums book).
Service Corporation International (SCI)
Contact: Liz Bradley, M.A.
Corporate Education and Communications
1929 Allen Parkway, 2nd floor
Houston, TX 77019
(727) 446-2375
(727) 562-2022 fax
Service Corporation International is a network of 1500 funeral homes and 400
cemeteries throughout North America. This network was created to offer
quality funeral, cemetery, and cremation services with care, compassion and
dignity. Service Corporation International affiliates provide community
care resources and programs that offer support to our communities prior to,
at the time of, and following a loss
Shepherd's Centers of America
Contact: Elbert C. Cole,
PhD
1 West Armour Boulevard, Suite 201
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 960-2022
(816) 960-1083 fax
Shepherd's Centers of America is a network of more
than 100 centers across the country devoted to education
and counseling about issues such as the meaning
of life and the role and function of older adults in
our society. Shepherd's Centers' educational and
health programs are built on four pillars: the
maintenance, the enrichment, the reorganization and the celebration
of life.
Society for Health Care Consumer Advocacy
Contact: Jake Eisle
President
1 North Franklin Street 31st Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
The mission of the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy is to lead the advancement of healthcare consumer advocacy by supporting the role of professionals who represent and advocate for consumers across the healthcare continuum.
Society of
Critical Care Medicine
Contact: Lisa Parks
8101 East Kaiser Boulevard
Anaheim, CA 92808-2243
Tel: (714) 282-6032
SCCM is a multidisciplinary, international organization
whose mission is to secure the highest quality
care for all critically ill patients. Project IMPACT,
SCCM's national ICU patient registry and critical care
database, is designed to meet the data collection and
analysis needs of critical care practitioners. SCCM
established the American College of Critical Care
Medicine, the first honorary society for critical care
practitioners. Nearly 500 critical care practitioners
are members.
Study Circles Resource Center
Contact: scrc@neca.org
P.O. Box 203
Pomfret, CT 06258
Study circles are small group, democratic, highly
participatory discussions, which allow citizens to analyze
a problem or a challenge that their community
faces. In the study circle process, citizens discuss
their firsthand knowledge of an issue, examine different
views and solutions, and draw on those experiences
and insights to decide what practical measures
should be taken. SCRC offers free assistance to
communities and organizations that are implementing
study circles.
Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition
for Compassionate Care
Contact: Sylvia
McSkimming, PhD, RN
c/o Providence Health System
4805 NE Glisan 2E07
Portland, OR 97213
(503) 215-5053
Supportive Care of the Dying is a Catholic healthcare ministry advocate that provides holistic compassionate care where death is integrated as a phase of living. It seeks to promote development and testing of innovative models, practices and processes that produce sustained measurable improvement in healthcare delivery systems and structures for persons impacted by life-threatening illnesses.
Visiting
Nurse Associations of America
Contact: Carolyn Markey, RN
11 Beacon Street, Suite 910
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 523-4042
The mission of the VNAA is to support, promote and
advance VNAs in their mission to serve their
communities.
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