Our Mission:

Growth House, Inc., provides this award-winning portal as your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. Our primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration. Our search engine gives you access to the Internet's most comprehensive collection of reviewed resources for end-of-life care.

We host the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network On End-of-life Care (IICN), a content syndication network that gives you free access to over 4,000 pages of reviewed educational materials from over forty major health care organizations. Growth House is a portal to the best materials from our partner organizations, including the full text of several books. Over 19,000 individual healthcare professionals have opened personal IICN accounts giving them access to our global professional forums and mailing lists.

Our hypertext topic pages explain major issues in hospice and home care, palliative care, pain management, grief, death with dignity, and quality improvement. We offer disease-specific guides for heart failure, end-stage renal disease, and cancer, plus overviews of other resources. Our online bookstore features the best books and music related to the issues we cover. And be sure to listen to Growth House Radio, a unique mix of music and easy-listening education features on end-of-life care. It's entertainment with a mission!

Featured Content Our new online edition of Joanne Lynn's recent book The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care gives practical advice on how to get real results in improving service access and delivery. A tip of the Growth House hat to palliative care doc James Hallenbeck for his latest blog piece titled Got Palliative Care?. It gives a clever spin to a serious issue. Does your institution understand the difference between human experiments and quality improvement? Download a Hastings Center report on the ethics of quality improvement. Our Blogging Portal will point you toward blogs covering end-of-life care. Check resources for life review and reminiscence therapy. Marina Raye combines heartfelt flute melodies with restful keyboard arrangements and some nature sounds in Blissful Journey , playing now on Growth House Radio's Quiet Music Channel.