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Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

Sponsor
American Hospital Association
Deadlines
Jul 26, 2024
Purpose

The Circle of Life Award honors innovative palliative and end-of-life care programs of any size serving patients with serious or life-limiting illness that demonstrate progress in 1 or more of the following areas:

  • Advancing care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable and patient- and family-centered
  • Partnering with payers, other providers, community groups, faith communities and others relevant to the community served
  • Developing meaningful measures and metrics to track organizational progress and/or advance the field
  • Implementing nontraditional models of care delivery and
  • Fully integrating palliative care into a system of care or a community
  • Making palliative care financially sustainable long term

Honorees are typically:

  • Emphasizing coordinated or integrated care delivery throughout all settings
  • Engaging underserved populations
  • Promoting palliative care in diverse populations
  • Using strategies for engaging communities
  • Creating partnerships with other healthcare organizations and practitioners, and initiatives within long-term care facilities

Rural organizations have received the award in the past. Awards will be presented at the 2025 AHA Leadership Summit, July 20-22 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Eligibility

All organizations or groups in the United States that provide palliative or end-of-life care are eligible for the award.

Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Up to 3 awards are presented each year.

Application process

A link to the application package is available on the program website.

Email completed applications to circleoflife@aha.org.

Tagged as
Hospice and palliative care

Organizations (1)



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