October 15, 2009
|
Program Result
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
October 15, 2009
|
Program Result
The State Forums Partnership Program provided timely, nonpartisan information and analysis to help state policy-makers make informed decisions about complex health care issues affecting their states.
September 9, 2009
|
Program Result
The Health Professions Partnership Initiative was designed to enhance the academic preparation of minority students and nurture their interest in health careers.
July 11, 2009
|
Program Result
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
June 22, 2009
|
Program Result
In 2004, four community health centers began screening their patients for depression and addictions. Patients were originally referred elsewhere for treatment, but the centers later hired social workers and a psychiatrist and began mental health treatment themselves.
May 31, 2009
|
Program Result
One of the first Faith in Action projects, located in Boston, has survived, struggled and sometimes thrived since its initial funding in 1983.
May 12, 2009
|
Program Result
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.
January 27, 2009
|
Program Result
The partnership recognized that in order to accomplish its goals, all of its strategies needed to be culturally, linguistically and economically appropriate for community residents.
November 20, 2008
|
Program Result
From 2003 to 2007, the United Teen Equality Center hired two outreach workers who worked with members of seven of the most active Southeast Asian youth gangs in Lowell, Mass., to reduce violence and improve teens' access to health care.
October 31, 2008
|
Program Result
The Medicare/Medicaid Integration Program helped states integrate - or move toward integration of - acute care and long-term care for dual eliglbles who are enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid managed care.
