The Hospice Foundation announced the awarding of $963,000 in
grants to 11 local nonprofits
– including Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital – and one at the
national level, funding hospice and other end-of-life care programs
for adults and children, grief support services, and advocacy,
according to an announcement this week.
The Hospice Foundation announced the awarding of $963,000 in grants to 11 local nonprofits – including Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital – and one at the national level, funding hospice and other end-of-life care programs for adults and children, grief support services, and advocacy, according to an announcement this week.
The following are the award winners for 2011, according to the announcement:
Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, San Benito County: $25,000 funds training of palliative care nursing staff in use of the Physicians Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form and system-wide implementation of the form’s usage in San Benito County.Â
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula: $400,000 for support of its hospice and palliative care programs for adults, as well as bereavement, and trained volunteer services.
A collaborative grant for Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services, Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition/Partnership for Children, and Coastal Kids Home Care: $248,000 funds a collaboration of medical care, pain and symptom management services for critically ill/dying children, as well as emotional, practical and bereavement support for their families. (Includes funding partnership of $73,000 with Community Foundation for Monterey County and $10,000 with Talbott Foundation.)
Central Coast Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice: $190,000 funds hospice and palliative care programs for adults in Monterey and San Benito counties, as well as bereavement and trained volunteer services.
Central Coast HIV/AIDS Services: $30,000 for emotional support services at the end of life for persons with AIDS, and their families or caregivers.
Compassionate Care Alliance: $25,000 funds its Caring Resources Program: educational outreach to physicians, other health care providers and local residents about end-of-life care planning issues. (Includes $5,000 in a funding partnership with Community Foundation for Monterey County.)
Catholic Charities: $15,000 funds professional bereavement counseling for low-income residents of Monterey County.
Natividad Medical Foundation: $15,000 to fund implementation of the palliative care program at Natividad Medical Center.
Hospice of Santa Cruz County: $10,000 funds hospice patient care and bereavement services for residents in North Monterey County.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: $5,000
helps this advocacy organization prepare recommendations to federal policymakers to reform Medicare hospice reimbursements. These recommendations will lessen cutbacks to hospice providers, including those serving Monterey and San Benito counties.
Since 1998, Hospice Foundation has awarded $17 million in grants locally to help create, develop and sustain a local network of organizations that provide emotional, bereavement, caregiving and hospice services for people at the end-of-life, and for their families, according to the organization.
This year, for the first time, the foundation has provided funding at the national level that will ultimately help local providers. This funding will help create recommendations for federal policymakers about Medicare reimbursements for hospice care, and reduce the impacts of continued cutbacks to hospice providers.
