Sojourns Pathway Program

The Foundation offers Sojourns Pathway grants to help ensure that palliative care is available to all patients with advanced illness. In addition to expanding the availability and use of high-quality palliative care, the program seeks to:

  • Improve patients’ and family members’ satisfaction with overall care
  • Integrate palliative care with local health care systems through partnerships between hospitals and their communities
  • Reduce patients’ pain and suffering
  • Promote sustainable business models for hospital-based palliative care

We award three types of Sojourns Pathway grants to nonprofit and public hospitals. Each type of grant is available through a separate Request for Proposal (RFP) process.

Planning Grants (View the RFP)

Grant size and duration: Up to $25,000 for up to six months

These grants are for nonprofit or public hospitals with 100 or more beds that do not offer a formal palliative care program. Grantees receive funding to:

  • Assemble a multidisciplinary team
  • Assess local needs
  • Visit hospital palliative care programs
  • Attend a two-day Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC)* training in Portland, Oregon to develop specific plans for launching a palliative care program

The Foundation is not currently accepting planning grant proposals.

* Palliative Care Leadership Centers (PCLC) is a national training and mentoring initiative supported by a consortium of funders, with direction and technical assistance provided by the Center to Advance Palliative Care. PCLC training for grantees of The Regence Foundation is provided in Portland, Oregon by the University of California-San Francisco Palliative Care Service/Palliative Care Leadership Center.

Implementation Grants (View the RFP)

Grant size and duration: $50,000-$125,000 for one or two years

These grants are for nonprofit or public hospitals with 100 or more beds that either do not offer a formal palliative care program or have not had an active or consistent palliative care program in the past two years. Grantees receive funding to:

  • Launch a hospital-based palliative care program
  • Provide palliative care services to patients and collect data to support the program’s ongoing operations
  • Explore palliative care partnerships between hospitals and communities

Proposals for Implementation Grants will be accepted between January 8 and August 6, 2010. To apply for an Implementation Grant, visit our Grant Application Center.

Innovation Grants (View the RFP)

Grant size and duration: $30,000 to $100,000 for up to two years

These grants are for nonprofit or public hospitals—or established hospital collaboratives—that provide palliative care services and seek to close gaps in local health care systems via partnerships with other organizations in their communities. The grant stipulates that:

  • Proposed innovations must be primarily focused on integrating palliative care services, practices and/or philosophies within local health care delivery systems via new or enhanced partnerships with other health-, health care- or community-based organizations
  • Funds are not intended to provide operating support for existing in-patient hospital palliative care programs

Proposals accepted on a rolling basis year-round. To apply for a Innovation Grant, visit our Grant Application Center.

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