Grants

Building Advocacy for Policy Change to Improve the Nation's Health

To develop and advance policy recommendations for how a modernized public health system should be structured, funded, staffed and held accountable.

Amount Awarded $8,000,000.00

Awarded on: 4/19/2007

Time frame: 9/1/2007 - 8/14/2012

Grant Number: 61370

1730 M Street, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC, 20036-4547

Learn how to improve care transitions and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions, and pick up nursing and medical education con-ed credits.

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