Reducing Anxiety and Increasing Patient-Centeredness With a Welcome Video
June 4, 2008 | Video/Story
Staff developed a welcome video called, “Your Stay at Kaiser: What You Need to Know,” for patients entering the hospital.
Patient-centered Care/Family-centered Care
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Tool Used to Assess How Well Community Health Centers Function as Medical Homes May Be Flawed
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The patient-centered medical home model holds the potential for reducing disease complications and improving health, and the federal government is now promoting the adoption of the model within federally qualified community health centers.
Engaging of Language Services by Pediatric Intensive Care Staff
August 11, 2009 | Story
UC Davis Health System's PICU team holds a monthly, multidisciplinary committee meeting that includes representatives of all PICU staff—physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, social workers and more.
Federal Tool to Assess Community Health Centers May Be Flawed
March 21, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar finds that a tool used to evaluate patient-centered care at community health centers might not measure the quality of care actually delivered.
Health Tracking
March 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
Designing Effective Health Care Quality Transparency Initiatives
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief highlights two report card initiatives for hospitals and primary care physicians that can be considered success stories.
Patients, Providers and Employers Working Together to Improve the Quality of Health Care
August 8, 2011 | Video/Story
Aligning Forces for Quality takes root in Humboldt County, Calif.
Health Plan Competition for Medicaid Enrollees Based on Performance Does Not Improve Quality of Care
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Incentives to improve the quality of care provided in Medicaid managed care plans are increasingly common and take many forms. One is a pay-for-performance program that automatically assigns new enrollees to better-performing Medicaid plans in California.
Community Health Alliance of Humboldt-Del Norte
September 1, 2008 | Survey/Poll
This report presents findings from a survey of adults with chronic conditions conducted in Humboldt County, California from May 2008 through July 2008. The survey was carried out as part of an evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Align ...
Self-Reported Use of Eye Care Among Latinos
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study examined self-reports of eye care among a sample of Latinos age 40 and older in La Puente, Calif.