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April 9, 2013 | News Release
NCQA and RWJF announced a new approach to measuring quality that will provide a more sensitive gauge of risk factors and make it possible to create clinically meaningful incentives for providers to improve disease prevention.
January 23, 2013 | News Release
“Nurses Are an Important Resource in Efforts to Improve Care and Patient Outcomes, and That Resource Needs to be Optimized”
October 3, 2012 | News Release
New study indicates nurses' assessments of care accurately reflect hospital quality.
July 31, 2012 | News Release
Ninety percent of hospitals in prestigious Aligning Forces for Quality program avoided hundreds of readmissions, improved patient safety by addressing language barriers, and improved timely care in emergency departments.
May 5, 2011 | News Release
Aligning Forces for Quality continues unprecedented effort to improve the quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce disparities and provide models to propel reform.
February 27, 2011 | News Release
Aligning Forces is RWJF’s signature effort to increase the overall quality of health care in 17 targeted communities nationwide.
June 14, 2013 | News Release
Announcing the national launch of the ECHO Institute focused on spreading the ECHO model across the United States and globally.
May 4, 2012 | News Release
HHS Agencies Can Now Use ARCHeS Tool To Conduct Large Scale Analyses To Evaluate Health Spending, Treatment, and Effectiveness.
January 30, 2013 | News Release
Avoidable hospitalizations in Cuyahoga County, Ohio—one of RWJF’s Aligning Forces for Quality communities—fell by nearly 3,000 for patients with common cardiovascular conditions, saving more than $20 million in health care costs.
October 11, 2012 | News Release
RWJF awards $2.1 million in grants to solve the problem of "super-utilizers."