Innovative Models and Approaches for Palliative Care Promoting Excellence in Intensive Care and End-of-Life Care Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families. Through the efforts of the Critical Care Workgroup, the grantees and all the participating hospitals, and innovative demonstration projects, the program strove to address particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care. The resources and best practices found and created by this program are now hosted on the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Web Site. Promoting Excellence Tools Clinical Care Tools Advance Care Planning, Clinical Assessment, Bereavement, Pain Management, Psychosocial... Evaluation Tools Clinical Quality, Community Assessment, Cost Utilization, Education, Organizational, Programmatic... Educational Tools Clinician Education, Community Education, Patient/Family Education... Organizational Tools Enrollment Criteria, Informed Consent, Organizational Assessment... Grantees - for Promoting Palliative Care Excellence in Intensive Care and End-of-Life Care WorkGroup Seven End-of-Life Care Domains Resources - PDFs and Comprehensive Bibliography See PromotingExcellence.org for additional palliative care tools and other materials Target audience for PromotingExcellence.org: the palliative care, hospice and end-of-life health care community including clinicians and researchers (the primary audience) the extended health care community (clinicians, administrators, providers, funders) the general public Promoting Excellence was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.