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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.

Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away

Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...

RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize

The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships which are helping people live healthier lives. The six winners w...

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas examines the ways that the gambling industry has designed gambling machines that encourag...

New Survey: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners Disagree on Nurses’ Role in Providing Primary Care

A study finds that 96 percent of nurse practitioners and 76 percent of physicians agreed with IOM report recommendation that “nurse practiti...

“Call the Midwife:” Horrors and Humanity in 1950s London

The strange pull of this series is its humanity, not its horrors.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Truth About ACEs

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of ACEs and the need to develop effectiv...

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities

While the need to address disparities in care is well known, few strategies for reducing disparities have been studied systematically.

Care About Your Care

A national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality o...

Playworks

Playworks improving the health and well-being of children through safe, meaningful play

Pioneering Ideas Blog

Team members, grantees, and guests discuss breakthrough ideas that will allow us to move toward solving challenges in health care.

Breaking the Silence on African-American Men’s Health

"Many African American men are invisible from health care settings until their health conditions are severe," Keon Gilbert writes.

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