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January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Veterans Health Administration (VA) is a test case for the effect of appointment wait times on the use of health services and health outcomes.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Assisted living capacity has a modest impact on who uses nursing home care—and how sick they are.
March 30, 2009 | Chart
A report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project shows that the supply of hospital beds and doctors varies widely from region to region across the United States, and the variations have nothing to do with the level of care patients want or need.
February 20, 2008 | Commentary
De facto racial segregation is a widespread characteristic of the U.S. health care system. This commentary reviews the economic circumstances facing health care providers that treat African-American patients. The author describes models for providing assistance to underfunded organizations.
February 1, 2000 | Program Result
Three New Jersey higher education institutions developed a program, ACCESS-MED, to increase the number of minority undergraduates pursuing a medical degree.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Assisted living has emerged as an important housing and long-term care option for older Americans. In this study the authors used primary data that they collected on county-level assisted living supply to gain a fuller understanding of this sector nationally.
October 26, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers at Boston University's Health Policy Institute conducted research to determine whether hospitals might improve patient care and reduce stress on nurses by smoothing peaks and valleys in the number of surgical patients they must care for.
January 1, 2005 | Program Result
Howard K. Rabinowitz published Caring for the Country: Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns, which profiled 10 program graduates working in rural areas and discussed both the challenges and the career satisfaction they enjoy.
January 1, 2003 | Book
In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, an award-winning journalist, the evaluator of the Foundation's Reach Out program, and a frequent contributor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, examines this ambitious 10-state effort.
April 1, 2002 | Program Result
From 1998 to 2000, staff at Dartmouth Medical School examined ways to strengthen community health centers and other safety-net providers who provide much of the care for the country's uninsured.