Building Bridges to Better Health Care

How America will Improve its Quality of Care

By: Lavizzo-Mourey R
Publisher: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Published: 4/1/2008

In the President's Message of the RWJF 2007 annual report, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D, M.B.A., focuses on quality improvement, and outlines the Foundation's efforts to make better the quality of health care in specific regions across the country through the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative. Personal stories, photographs and perspectives show how to bring the best medical care and peace of mind to as many people and their families as possible.

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