October 1, 2005
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Program Result
From September 1997 through January 2003, researchers at Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Cambridge, Mass., studied how a change in ownership from nonprofit to for-profit status ("conversion") affected hospitals' provision of community benefits, financial performance and relationships with other health care providers.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health examined the short- and long-term impact that conversions of hospitals from nonprofit to for-profit status have on their communities.
April 1, 1999
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Program Result
From 1995 to 1997, researchers at the Massachusetts Health Research Institute determined the size of this gap and whether it represented a potential revenue source to finance care for the uninsured.
July 31, 2008
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Program Result
In this 2004 to 2005 project, Robert J. Town, PhD, and a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between managed care and hospital consolidation and the impact of hospital consolidation on consumers.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
Georgetown University completed a study in early 2000 that suggested that the District of Columbia would be better served if health care for its uninsured and indigent populations were purchased through the private rather than the public sector.
October 1, 2000
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Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at the Sunnybrook Foundation examined the charges for 16 well-defined hospital services in different parts of the United States in order to test the hypothesis that there are wide price differences for the same hospital services.
February 25, 2011
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Program Result
Urgent Matters was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that aimed to relieve emergency department overcrowding, improve patient care and increase patient satisfaction.
January 31, 2004
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Program Result
From 1994 to 1998, staff at the Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition implemented a program called Operation Access to increase access to ambulatory surgery services for medically indigent patients in San Francisco.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
During 2000 and 2001, Third Sector New England investigated how hospitals develop and implement their policies on providing free care to uninsured and underinsured patients.
April 1, 2002
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Program Result
From 1998 to 2000, staff at Dartmouth Medical School examined ways to strengthen community health centers and other safety-net providers who provide much of the care for the country's uninsured.
