New Hampshire End Of Life Project

HB 7251
314 Strasenburgh Hall
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-650-1794
FAX: 603-650-1935
Sarah Goodlin, MD, Director
Jane B. Ackerman, Project Coordinator

Project Overview

This two-year project (begun in July 1996) seeks to understand and improve care for persons in New Hampshire who are nearing the end of life. It is funded by the NH Health Care Transition Fund, and directed by Sarah Goodlin, MD, a geriatrician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Jane Ackerman is the project coordinator.

Specifically, The NH End of Life Project is designed:

to bring together statewide hospice services, community members, health care providers, and "Quality Improvement" leaders to address health care for persons nearing the end of life;
to develop a set of "measurement tools" to understand end-of-life care as it currently exists, and on which to base future improvement;
to form a statewide consortium of health care providers and community leaders to track outcomes of care, and to work together to facilitate improvements in the delivery of health care for dying persons.

Understanding outcomes for patients and families as they relate to steps in care allows providers to learn what works well, and to find ways to improve their work. We hope that by working together, hospital staff, nursing homes, home care providers, physicians and others will begin to bridge gaps between their organizations in care for those near the end of life.

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