Profiles of End-of-Life Care Programs

November 30, 2000

Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies recounts the founding of nine end-of-life care programs designed to relieve the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients and help families cope with their loved ones’ illnesses. Each of the narratives is written by the doctor, nurse, or social worker who started the program, and provides statistical and financial information about the program. The report was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in Princeton, N.J., and the Milbank Memorial Fund, in New York.

Publisher: Milbank Memorial Fund, 645 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022; (212) 355-8400; 225 pages; free.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.