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Care About Your Care is a national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality of care.

States Slash Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Budgets

December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. States collect billions of dollars in tobacco revenue from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes—with less than two cents of every dollar going to fight tobacco use.

Central Valley, Calif.

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Central Valley, Calif. community is among 50 sites making changes in national initiative to prevent obesity.

Toward Preventing Suicide in Las Vegas

January 31, 2008 | Story

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program has given Matt Wray, PhD, the opportunity to pursue research with important clinical and policy implications.

Health Leaders Join Forces to Tackle National Problem of Hospital Readmissions

January 31, 2013 | News Release

Care About Your Care is a national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality of care.

TCAB

November 1, 2009 | Journal Article

In this contribution to a special supplement of the American Journal of Nursing, executives of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) detail the evolution, specific processes (such as "rapid-cycle design") and pilot program results and highlights of the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative.

Coordinating Care Across Diseases, Settings and Clinicians

April 19, 2005 | Journal Article

The complexity of the United States health care delivery system presents specific difficulties for the provision of coordinated care. In 2003, the RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program began a review of the state of coordinated care and implications for the future of generalist research, education and practice.

Variation in Treatment Preferences and Care Goals Among Older Patients with Diabetes and Their Physicians

March 1, 2008 | Journal Article

This study aims to describe the preferences of older patients with diabetes regarding their willingness to accept certain treatment regimens.

Postdischarge Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors and the Likelihood of Early Hospital Readmission Among Community-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries

August 1, 2008 | Journal Article

Older Americans are more likely to be readmitted to a hospital quickly if they live alone, lack self-management skills, have limited education, or do not receive the help they need for daily living functions, according to analysis of recent Medicare data.