What's Next Health: Daniel Kraft
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. Executive director of FutureMed, Daniel Kraft, MD, discusses approaches to "escape velocity" in health care.
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Home Mental Health Care for Gunshot Victims
July 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In the next six months, I met 39 other gunshot victims whose experiences closely mirrored Ervin’s. In different ways, each of these victims explained how getting shot was not only physically and psychologically trying, it was also a drain on their ...
Living the Dream: How We Care Matters
January 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
My first nursing job was in the ICU. The first thing I did after report was to clean my patients up and make them as comfortable as I could. I would change the wrinkled sheets they laid on all day in a hard bed. I got them up and out of the bed if t ...
Community Advocate Helps Rural Poor Age in Their Own Homes
November 8, 2011 | Story
2011 Community Health Leader creates a program that educates residents of Arkansas' poorest region about health and health care services.
Pilot Program Trains Certified Home Health Aides to Provide Nursing Care to Patients at Home
October 4, 2011 | Program Result Report
Under the state of New Jersey's Nurse Delegation Pilot Program, registered nurses delegated specific health care tasks performed in the homes of some Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities or chronic conditions to certified home health aides.
Michigan Project Creates Screening System and Develops and Tests Quality Measures for Home-Based Medicaid Patients
May 31, 2011 | Program Result Report
The University of Michigan conducted development and evaluation work on the Michigan Managed Long-Term Care Initiative, which allows eligible adults to receive Medicaid-covered services in their homes.
Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
April 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.
Colorado Project to Curb Shortage of Home Health Care Nurses Gets Major Boost from RWJF-Supported Program
September 22, 2010 | Story
Program designed to increase number and competencies of home health nurses in Colorado is one of nine projects nationwide to receive funding from Partners Investing in Nursing's Future.
Physician Evaluation and Management of Medicare Home Health Patients
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines physician management of Medicare patients receiving home health services. Patients under Medicare home health generally have complex medical needs and make heavy use of health care services, but little is known about the extent and type of physician supervision provided to these patients.
Program Results Topic Summary: Long-Term-Care Housing and Supportive Services
October 12, 2009 | Program Result Report
This Topic Summary synthesizes work supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and described in Grant Results that is related to housing and supportive services for chronically ill and disabled elderly and adults.