A Career Comes Full Circle
September 6, 2012 | Story
Nancy Zionts, chief program officer for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), documents the steady rise of nurse Maureen Saxon-Gioia, whose career got a boost from RWJF and JHF.
Quality of Care
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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Aligning Forces for Quality: Snapshots of Success
October 28, 2009 | Issue Brief
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) tests innovative strategies for improving health care at the community level. These snapshots of success highlight one activity from each of the original 14 AF4Q communities and outline the steps involved, lessons learned and results of the activity.
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In an effort to evaluate quality improvement (QI) programs, self-reported versus externally rated measures of QI success led to different results. This study suggests that, ideally, evaluations of QI efforts should use externally rated measures.
The Story of Transforming Care at the Bedside
January 30, 2005 | Report
Recommended Reading A New Era in Nursing Evaluation of Transforming Care at the Bedside Empowering Better Nursing Care Tools for Transforming Care at the Bedside The Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) Toolkit Transforming Care at the Bedside Ta ...
Foundation Gives $22-Million to Increase Supply of Nursing Faculty Members
June 2, 2009 | Commentary
This opinion column appeared in the June 2, 2009, edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
ACT Project: University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, 2003-06
November 13, 2009 | Program Result Report
The University of Pennsylvania Health System participated in all three phases of ACT at its center located at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Hospital Mergers Do Not Always Save Money or Reduce Inefficiencies
August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
During 1996 and 1997, researchers at the Economic and Social Research Institute, led by Jack A. Meyer, PhD, examined the St. Louis and Philadelphia hospital markets, which experienced extensive merger activity in the early 1990s, to assess whether horizontal integration combined with purchaser pressure can shrink the excess capacity in a hospital system.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Implements Transforming Care at the Bedside with a Focus on Medical Errors
July 5, 2011 | Story
"You can't deliver sustainable, long-term quality and safety improvement without infrastructure dedicated to the work," Minnier says. "And the amount you have will be a very strong predictor of the change and the sustainability of that change."
Philadelphia, Pa.
January 11, 2010 | Story
Community is among 50 sites making critical changes through national initiative to prevent obesity.
A Story from a Palliative Care Program for People Dying in Nursing Homes
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
If anything defines the transformation created by the palliative care initiative at the Pines it is the shift in the way staff members view their role in caring for patients, and the results of their greater involvement.