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June 25, 2012 | Program Result Report
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation funded nine teams of researchers to address a core question within health care environments: "How will we know that change is an improvement?"
July 4, 2012 | Program Result Report
Program Results Topic Summary: RWJF's Strategy and Direction to Improve Health Care Quality 1972 to 2006
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2002, researchers with the RAND Corporation assessed the quality of care delivered to a large sample of patients living in 12 U.S. communities. This work provided the first national snapshot of health care quality in the United States.
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
That Americans get only half of recommended care is not an easy message to deliver - or for people to receive. RAND researchers undertook an intensive communications campaign in hopes that their "bad news" would spur changes in health care policy.
September 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Health Care Futures, the supporting organization of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh, hosted a summit of funders, educators, workforce development experts and employers on how to prepare youth for careers in the health care sector.
August 27, 2009 | Program Result Report
A conceptual model of organizational transformation can help health care organizations achieve high levels of quality for patients while remaining profitable.
March 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Staff at the American Sociological Association published a special issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Health & Social Behavior entitled "Health and Health Care in the U.S.: Origins and Dynamics."
June 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From 1992 through 2002, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded Building Health Systems for People With Chronic Illnesses.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1997, Carol S. Weisman, PhD, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, examined contemporary issues in the health care of women in the United States.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The American Medical Student Association conducted a survey of medical students that revealed that a majority believe that the U.S. health care system treats people unfairly.