Continuing Education
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Learn how to improve care transitions and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions, and pick up nursing and medical education con-ed credits.
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RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
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The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships which are helping people live healthier lives. The six winners were selected from more than 160 applicants from across the country.
Force Multipliers
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Our Force Multiplier campaign salutes Foundation programs and initiatives that have helped revolutionize health and health care in America.
Promising Practices
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A collection of success stories on quality improvement from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.
Commission to Build a Healthier America
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The reconvened Commission to Build a Healthier America will provide new guidance in two key areas: early childhood and healthy communities.
Creating Resilient Communities
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In an April 12, 2013 speech about creating resilient communities, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Ben S. Bernanke illustrates the close connections between housing, education, unemployment, and health within neighborhoods.
Clinical and Economic Outcomes Attributable to Healthcare Associated Sepsis and Pneumonia
February 22, 1010 | Journal Article
A new study, based on national hospital discharge data, finds the clinical and economic costs of sepsis and pneumonia infections contracted while in the hospital are substantial and vary among patient groups. Commentary estimates that in 2006, 48,000 people died from these infections and there were $8.1 billion associated hospital costs.
Mental Illness Hospitalizations of Youth in Washington State
August 1, 0200 | Journal Article
Overall hospitalization rates for youth decreased during the past two decades as a result, in part, of a shift from inpatient to outpatient management of many conditions.
The Impact of Medicare Part D on Out-of-Pocket Costs for Prescription Drugs, Medication Utilization, Health Resource Utilization, and Preference-Based Health Utility
August 1, 0200 | Journal Article
With the introduction of Part D, Medicare beneficiaries get more prescription drugs at less cost.