March 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
September 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
Starting in 1997, investigators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, analyzed the effects of advanced patient age on resource use in hospitals, clinical outcomes for the patient and the cost-effectiveness of selected life-sustaining treatments.
August 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
From 1999 to 2003, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio studied the effect of treatment for depression on health and functioning in older adults with depression and diabetes.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center refined and evaluated the Community Resource Connection, an administrative system that identified health care needs among elderly patients and linked them to appropriate services.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1998, staff at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Denver expanded and evaluated its Cooperative Health Care Clinic.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
California Pacific Medical Center evaluated a program called the Identification and Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Seniors, which sought to identify high-risk non-hospitalized seniors before a crisis arose that would have forced a hospital stay.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The University of Minnesota Medical School compared the effects on patients and a health plan of using a "care advisor" who coordinated services for senior members of a health plan to those of the plan's regular "gatekeeper" model.
September 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2002, staff at North Country Aging Services in Edina, Minn., collaborated with four adult day centers to develop and test a screening and referral protocol for depression among elderly clients.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Fairview Foundation in Minneapolis created and evaluated Fairview Partners, an integrated health network of providers working together to improve the quality and delivery of health services to chronically ill nursing home patients.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Council on Aging of the Cincinnati Area developed a project to enhance care for the frail elderly by linking acute and long-term care services and improving communication and coordination among providers.
