Americans receive only about half of the recommended care they should receive. Adopting quality improvement strategies, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, and changing how care is delivered at the local level can improve the care all Americans receive.
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April 28, 2010 | News Release
The Greater Boston Quality Coalition Joins the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Unprecedented 'Aligning Forces for Quality' Initiative.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners tested the feasibility of collecting and publicly reporting individual physician quality information.
May 1, 2010 | Report
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative aims to ensure that consumers have an effective voice in efforts to achieve quality coverage and care as the details of implementing Massachusetts' health reform are hammered out. Carolyn Needleman, Ph.D., of Social Research Associates was contracted by the Foundation to assess the project's progress.
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief highlights two report card initiatives for hospitals and primary care physicians that can be considered success stories.
June 4, 2008 | Story
Massachusetts General Hospital kept patient charts at the patients' bedsides, where they were easily accessed and updated.
July 11, 2012 | Program Result
Health Care for All, a Boston-based consumer advocacy organization, worked to give consumers a voice in implementing state health reform legislation that expanded insurance coverage in Massachusetts, and in reforming its payment systems.
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Katherine Swartz, PhD.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
An intervention conducted through a secure Internet portal suggests that providing coaching and advice to patients online may enhance the patient-physician relationship. This study tested digital interactive strategies that promote patient self-management of chronic disease.
January 11, 2010 | Story
Community is among 50 sites making critical changes through national initiative to prevent obesity.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Case studies focused on regionalization of public health preparedness and response in the Washington metropolitan area, highlighted the lack of an official of regional public health structure and the challenge in integrating the federal government into the regionalization effort.