Improving the Quality of Senior Life
September 4, 2012
LIFE St. Francis was the first Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) initiative in New Jersey. Christine Walley explains the program's development.
Access and Barriers to Care
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New Jersey Health Initiatives
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
New Jersey Health Initiatives supports innovative projects by nonprofit, community-based organizations to improve the health and health care of the state's residents.
A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.
Explaining the Increase in Family Financial Pressures from Medical Bills Between 2003 and 2007
September 9, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether affordability thresholds of financial strain due to medical bills change over time. The increasing cost of health care is a central issue in health policy and out-of-pocket spending for families has grown faster than incomes in the past decade.
A Coalition Creates a Citywide Care Management System
January 13, 2011 | Program Result
The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers created a citywide care management system, working with high emergency room and hospital users, providing transitional primary care aimed at moving patients to an appropriate primary care setting.
New Services for Released Prisoners with Mental Illness in Mercer County, N.J.
June 28, 2010 | Program Result
Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare and its partners provided re-entry assistance to 176 incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness through discharge planning, case management and needed follow-up services for 12 months or more.
Taking it to the Streets: Community Health Workers Improve Access for Low-Income Residents
January 28, 2002 | Program Result
The New Community Corporation, the largest nonprofit housing corporation in New Jersey, worked with Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), a worldwide humanitarian organization in health care, to train Community Health Workers.
The Health Gap Between Black and White
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1999, New Jersey's Office of Minority Health convened a summit of state leaders to address the problem of continued disparities in minority health care status and outcomes in New Jersey.
An RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar Studies Effects of Urban Poverty on Children and Adolescents
December 8, 2011 | Story
A profile of Robert Atkins, PhD, RN, Nurse Faculty Scholar
Health Care Financing and Organization Grant Recipient Studies "Spells Without Insurance" and Emerging Insurance Issues
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Katherine Swartz, PhD.