The Porch Light Initiative, a groundbreaking Philadelphia program supported by RWJF, pairs artists with individuals receiving treatment for behavioral health challenges to design, paint and hang large-scale murals. The projects engage people in a new way, developing deeper connections to their community and creating a safe space to talk about behavioral health issues.
The Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults (EDIPPP) initiative has gathered evidence to show the value of engaging communities toward preventing severe mental illness in young people. Hear about one young woman's journey.
Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, talks about why students need healthy foods in schools.
Mary Story, director of Healthy Eating Research, and Tracy Fox, president of Food, Nutrition and Policy Consultants, discuss why we need healthier beverage standards.
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September 17, 2008 | Video
Nine research teams from across the country unveiled innovative prototypes of personal health record (PHR) applications that provide a glimpse of the "next generation" of PHRs.
September 1, 2008 | Issue Brief/Video
A serious chronic disease in its own right, diabetes can lead to other chronic conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease and stroke.
June 4, 2008 | Video/Presentation Material
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System, in Watertown, S.D., developed a patient care planning process that meets regulatory standards but excludes a written report to decrease the amount of time nurses spend on documentation.
June 4, 2008 | Video/Toolkit
Staff at Seton Family of Hospitals in Texas developed a risk assessment protocol, identifying populations at risk and using prevention tools such as alerts and patient-care rounding, which has enabled the staff to consistently meet its goal of just two falls per 1,000 patient days.
June 4, 2008 | Video
To improve the frequency and consistency of turning patients, a visual indicator was developed that could easily and immediately be seen by all front-line staff.
June 4, 2008 | Video/Survey/Poll
In order to improve the process, a new role was created for a resource nurse and the traditional charge nurse role was eliminated.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
The current race and ethnicity categories used by the Office of Management and Budget are the recommended standard, yet given the United States' increasingly diverse population, the Expecting Success program used an expanded list of categories.
June 4, 2008 | Video
The goal of this section of the tooklit Transforming Care at the Bedside is to identify a unit to serve as the hospital's pilot for TCAB¿one that can learn from the process, be a model for other units hospitalwide and includes nurses who can become champions for quality improvement.
May 6, 2008 | Video/Story
Connecting the worlds of video games and health, with positive results.
Feature/Video
One doctor in Camden, NJ, Jeffrey Brenner, used data to map “hot spots” of health care high-utilizers—one patient had gone to the hospital 113 times in a year—and found a better, cheaper way to treat these costly patients through collaborative care.