Multnomah County: Health at Home
January 21, 2010 | Story
Health service delivery changes improves the community's health in Multnomah County, Oregon.
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Programs' Progress
February 27, 2012 | Story
Leaders' Link Newsletter: January/February 2012.
Improving Performance in Practice
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) provides small, primary-care practices with tools, support, coaching and a collaborative learning environment in which they can assess their performance and engage systematically in improvement activities. Th ...
THEME 1: Helping Children and Families
October 6, 2008 | Story
When 3-year-old Jimmy Townsend was diagnosed with asthma, his mother, Octavia, faced a bewildering array of medicines and delivery devices. "In the beginning, I was not comfortable" handling the medication, says Townsend.
THEME 4: Coalitions and Policy Change
October 1, 2008 | Story
One barrier to improved pediatric asthma control in Philadelphia's high-risk neighborhoods was the absence of a standardized asthma action plan for the three Medicaid managed care organizations in the city.
Policy and System Change and Community Coalitions
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation developed the Allies Against Asthma Program in seven regions of the U.S. This article presents a five-year evaluation, focusing on three outcomes: policy and system changes, health outcomes, and engagement of coalition members.
Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report from Project HeathDesign captures key learnings from the work of the program's first nine grantee teams, as well as from its efforts to develop a common platform and explore the ethical, legal and social issues tied to next-generation personal health records (PHRs).
Spatial Accessibility to Providers and Vaccination Compliance Among Children with Medicaid
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children in low-income families living far from an immunization provider can miss basic vaccinations because parents lack their own transportation. This study examined how the availability of immunization providers affected vaccination rates among low-income children in Washington, D.C.
Achieving Competence Today (ACT) Collaborative: Disseminating an Action-Based Inter-Professional Curriculum that Incorporates Quality Improvement
March 25, 2010 | Program Result
ACT created an interactive website and sample curricula for post–medical school physician training programs. Six hospitals adapted, institutionalized and expanded the ACT curriculum at their schools.
Evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education
November 12, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) consisted of a survey of 63 project directors in order to define the specific managed care competencies and related patient care tasks that residence program directors expected residents to learn as a result of the new training.