Will Reform Strengthen or Strain the Health Care Safety Net?
October 25, 2012 | Story
RWJF Scholars chart opportunities and problems and pose solutions for protecting the health care institutions that serve the most vulnerable.
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The Impact of Hospital Consolidation
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
This brief is an update of the 2006 synthesis examining the impact of hospital mergers on prices, costs, and quality of care. In addition to examining the literature on hospital consolidation since the 2006 synthesis was published, this update revie ...
Transforming Care at the Bedside
July 11, 2011 | Program Result
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) was a national initiative to improve hospital patient care and the hospital work environment by empowering front-line nurses to implement innovative new practices on their units.
Dartmouth Atlas Project
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
Speaking Together: National Language Services Network
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
Evidence-Based Hospital Design Can Reduce Stress and Improve Outcomes for Patients and Caregivers
December 4, 2009 | Program Result
The Center for Health Design and the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture developed an Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification program, to accredit design professionals who use evidence-based design for new hospitals.
Charitable Expectations of Nonprofit Hospitals
July 23, 2009 | Journal Article
How should nonprofit health care providers be expected to benefit the communities that they serve? Maryland's program points the way for other states as a new federal law goes into effect in 2010.
Austin/Travis County: Strengthening the Safety Net Through Health Information Technology
February 11, 2009 | Program Result
The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department used its InformationLinks grant to strengthen its ties to the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC), an alliance of safety net providers serving a three-county region of central Texas.
Where Did You Get That Bruise? Identifying and Treating Domestic Violence Victims in Kansas City
November 10, 2008 | Program Result
From 2003 to 2006, a coalition of six domestic violence agencies in the Kansas City area worked with local hospitals and clinics to provide assistance to patients who were victims of domestic violence.
Steps to Create the Optimal Nursing Unit
October 6, 2008 | Program Result
Investigators led a multisite study designed to explore how nurses use their time and whether the design of their workplace has an impact on patient care.