Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Hospitals
August 23, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
AF4Q is working with nearly 300 hospitals in 16 communities to develop, test, implement, and spread quality improvement strategies.
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Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Hospitals
August 23, 2012
AF4Q is working with nearly 300 hospitals in 16 communities to develop, test, implement, and spread quality improvement strategies.
Specialized Hospital Units for Elderly Provide Shorter Stays, Lower Costs
June 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Hospital units designed specifically for the care of older patients could save as much as $6 billion a year, a study from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) finds. In a randomized controlled trial, patients in “acute care for elder ...
The Path to Palliative Care
July 6, 2012 | Feature
RWJF brought about a seismic shift in the way Americans viewed end-of-life care.
Cash & Counseling: Empowering Choice, Improving Health
May 25, 2012 | Feature
In 1998, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) joined forces to provide eligible, disabled Medicaid participants with greater personal choice and control over their care
Lessons from Boston: Providing Trauma Care
April 26, 2013 | Story
An RWJF Clinical Scholar shares lessons from the Brigham and Women’s ER on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Medicare/Medicaid Integration Program
National Program
A state demonstration program to test the operation and design of delivery systems that integrate long-term and acute care services under combined Medicare and Medicaid capitation payments for elderly patients.
Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness
National Program
To support community-based coalitions aimed at improving efforts to control pediatric asthma.
An Increase in the Number of Nurses With Baccalaureate Degrees is Linked to Lower Rates of Postsurgery Mortality
March 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Researchers found that a 10-point increase in the percentage of nurses holding a baccalaureate degree in nursing within a hospital was associated with an average reduction of 2.12 deaths for every 1,000 patients.
Initiative on the Future of Nursing Explores Improving Quality across Acute Care Settings
November 24, 2009 | Story
More than 300 nurses, public policy experts and health care professionals attended an acute care forum organized by the Initiative on the Future of Nursing in October that featured leading experts from around the country.