GRANTS MADE 2003

Massachusetts General Hospital
"MGH Cares About Pain Relief" Boston, MA
Thomas Quinn, RN
A grant of $80,418 representing the final payment of a multi-year grant in support of the "MGH Cares About Pain Relief" project. This project represents the hospital’s commitment to integrating the care of pain into the culture of the hospital. It includes the “Pain Champions” courses.
Web Site: http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/PainRelief/

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Emergency Room Medicine and Pediatrics
University of California, Davis “Utilization of the Emergency Department by Chronic Pain Patients to Obtain Pain Medications: A Study of Barriers to Treatment, Abusive Behaviors and Psychological Factors”
Scott Fishman MD, Barth Wilsey MD, Amy Ernst MD, Margie Crandall RN PHD
A grant of $108,136 representing the first payment of a two-year grant totaling $216,272. This research project hopes to address the core barriers to treating pain in the emergency department. It will: help gather qualitative and quantitative evidence on the prevalence of components of the problem of adequately treating pain in the ED; gather data on the beliefs and perceived barriers to care in the ED from the perspectives of patients and clinicians; and correlate a test that could easily be applied by clinicians to help them feel more effective and less vulnerable in the care of patients in pain.
Web Site: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pain/

Pain Relief Program, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
"Injection Protection and The Injection Protection Connection" Hartford, CT
Neil Schechter, MD and William Zempsky, MD
A grant of $50,000 to develop a community-wide immunization pain reduction program. One goal is to bring the knowledge that exists about pediatric pain into the pediatric office so that the broadest number of children may be served. Another is to develop a ‘best practice’ model so that clinicians will have the information they need to reduce the pain of immunization.
Web Site: http://www.ccmckids.org/departments/pain.ht

University of Iowa Foundation College of Nursing, Children’s Hospital of Iowa
Minimizing the Trauma of Pediatric Urethral Catheterization Using Lidocaine Gel"
Iowa City, IA
Charmaine Kleiber, PhD, RN, FAAN
A grant of $6,500 to support the production and distribution of an educational video designed to teach health professionals how to use lidocaine gel with children undergoing urology procedures with the goal to relieve pain.

Partnership for Caring
Brooklyn, NY
Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN
A grant of $5000 in support of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care.
Web Site: http://www.nationalconsensusproject.org/

The American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics
Boston, MA,
Sandra Johnson, JD, LLM and Benjamin Moulton, JD, MPH
A grant of $146,524 representing the second and final payment in the total grant of $265,644 in support of the “Project on Pain Medicine and Emergency Medicine.” Among the goals of the project are to support research on the legal and ethical aspects of pain management in the emergency department; to provide educational opportunities for physicians and nurses in emergency care; and to raise public awareness of the issues involved, especially on a policy level.
Web Site: http://www.painandthelaw.org/

Adult and Gerontological Nursing, College of Nursing - The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Keela Herr, PhD, RN
A grant of $15,134 to support the “State of the Art Review of Tools for the Assessment of Pain in Nonverbal Older Adults.”

Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
New York, NY
A grant of $5000 in recognition of all the work that Dr. Russell K. Portenoy does to help educate the broader public about pain and the myths that surround the use of pain medication.
Web Site: http://www.stoppain.org/

Wisconsin Pain Initiative
Madison, WI,
A grant of $1000 to the Wisconsin Pain Initiative in recognition of all the work that Dr. June L. Dahl does to help educate the broader public about pain and the myths that surround the use of pain medication.
Web Site: http://www.wisc.edu/molpharm/wcpi/

Emergency Medicine Foundation
Irving, TX
Knox Todd, MD, MPH and Janet McEwen
A grant of $143,750 representing the second and final payment in the total grant of $287,500 in support of the “Pain and Emergency Medicine Initiative.” This project supports a network of emergency physicians and nurses to bring issues regarding pain management into focus within Emergency Medicine. The “Pain and Emergency Medicine Initiative” includes a “Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Study,” which is being conducted in 2003 and 2004.

Center for the Advancement of Health
Washington, DC
Jessie Gruman, PhD
A grant of $4,000 in partial support of “Capturing the Value of Health Research: Can Foundations Accelerate Progress? – A Conference for Foundation Leaders.”
Web Site: http://www.cfah.org/

Newport Hospital
Newport, RI
Marlene Dufault, PhD, RN and Lynne Francis, MS, RN
An eighteen-month grant of $67,365 to support the project, “Translating Best Practice in Non-Drug Interventions to Enhance Surgical Pain Management.” The goal of the project is to use an innovative approach to translate empirically tested non-drug interventions for pain management into ‘easy to use,’ best practice protocols for hospitalized older adults undergoing surgery.

Persephone Productions, Inc.
" To the Contrary" Washington, DC,
Bonnie Erbe
A grant of $62,500 to support a public education campaign on pediatric pain, which will be presented on “To the Contrary.” The insert in the program, on the work of “The Pain Relief Program” at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, will be aired in 2004.
Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/ttc/

Village Center for Care Fund
New York, NY
John Hughes
A grant of $37,500 representing the first payment of a total two-year grant of $100,000 to support the “Pain Management Initiative” as part of an innovative model of care that addresses the pain needs of elderly and AIDS populations. This program is part of a new design to deliver nursing home care that includes small congregate care units located in home-like settings.

NYRAG (New York Regional Association of Grantmakers), $750
Web Site: http://www.nyrag.org/

The Council on Foundations, $2,006
Web Site: http://www.cof.org/

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