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    Expecting Success Program Achievements Video

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, improved quality of inpatient cardiac care while helping to reduce racial, ethnic and language disparities. Ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patients worked together for three years to study and improve the quality and equity of care they provided. This video highlights the Expecting Success program and the success hospitals achieved in improving the care provided to their heart failure and heart attack patients.

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    Evaluation of Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

    Publication date:
    February 2006

    Summary:
    Expecting Success is an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) aimed at improving cardiac care for racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. Led by John Billings,...

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    Race/Ethnicity and Patient Confidence to Self-Manage Cardiovascular Disease

    By:
    Blustein J, Valentine M, Mead H and Regenstein M

    Publication date:
    September 2008

    Summary:
    This study examines associations between race/ethnicity and other characteristics that determine confidence levels related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) self management. Minority cardiac patients have lower levels of confidence in their ability to self-manage CVD...

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    Expecting Success Toolkit

    Publication date:
    June 04, 2008

    Summary:
    Ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patient populations participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at improving quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and...

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    Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care Results from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quality Improvement Collaborative

    Publication date:
    November 19, 2008

    Summary:
    Read the final report from the 10 Expecting Success hospitals, a pilot focused on the continuum of cardiovascular care for African-American and Hispanic patients with acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure.

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