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In April 2003, a group of Idaho leaders
in the end-of-life community met and began to discuss
the low ranking Idaho received in The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
Last Acts Means to a Better End – A Report on Dying in
America Today.
Each month the number of people grew, and
by June 2004 the following individuals and organizations
stepped out of the crowd to become founding partners and
members of A Better Way Coalition: Life on Our Own
Terms. During this formative year a strategic plan
and organizational structure was developed based on the
vision and mission members hold for end-of-life care in
Idaho. A Better Way Coalition: Life on Our Own Terms, a
grassroots community organizing coalition, plans to
become a formal non-profit organization in 2005.
Five organizations joined at the Partner
level. The leadership team is comprised of one
representative from each partner organization and the
Coalition executive director.
FOUNDING PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
AARP Idaho
Idaho Commission on Aging
Idaho Health Care Association
Idaho State Hospice Organization
National Association of Social Workers
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Cheryl Simpson-Whitaker, MSW
Four Rivers Hospice
Hospice of the Wood River Valley
Idaho Area Agencies on Aging
Jamie Kelley-Kinyon, LCSW, Clinical
Social Worker
Kathie Garrett, Idaho Legislator
Life’s Doors Hospice
Linda Burch, LCSW, Clinical Social Worker
Lutheran Community Services
Magdalena Donaldson, Spanish Medical
Interpreter and Translator
Magic Valley Medical Center
Margaret LeMay, Chaplain
Marianne Piquet, Concerned Citizen
Mary Langenfeld, RN, Ph.D., CEO Life’s
Doors Hospice
Nampa Care Center
Northwest Nazarene University School of
Social Work
Partnership for Compassionate Communities
End-of-Life Coalition
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center
Hospice
Sisson and Sisson, The Elder & Disability
Law Firm
Summerwind Assisted Living
Wendy Jaquet, Idaho Legislator
Current members of A Better Way Coalition
are listed in our Member
Directory.
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