Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
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Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.
Physician Group Practices
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Doctors' Dilemma: How Health Care Financing Shapes Service
August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at the Health Research and Education Trust, in collaboration with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, studied joint hospital and physician group efforts to create integrated service arrangements and facilitated managed care contracting.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
Transformational Change in Health Care Systems
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article offers a conceptual model for understanding how organizations can move from short-term performance enhancements to sustained, organizationwide patient care improvements
Rewarding Results: Aligning Incentives with High-Quality Health Care
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
San Diego Shelter Recruits Volunteers to Expand Health Services
January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1995, St. Vincent de Paul Village in San Diego, Calif., expanded the services provided by its medical center, which is part of St. Vincent de Paul Village's extensive homeless shelter.
Maine Hospital Forms Rural Integrated Primary Care System to Attract Physicians and Broaden Access to Care
January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Foundation in Blue Hill, Maine developed its fledgling affiliated multi-site group practice, Peninsula Primary Care Association, for underserved residents of Hancock County.
A Network of Medical Volunteers Expands in South Carolina
January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report
Starting in August 1994, a managed network of volunteer medical providers called Commun-I-Care continued ongoing efforts to provide non-emergency health care to the uninsured poor in South Carolina.
Physicians' Outreach Project Expands Access to Specialty Care for Low-Income Patients in Tallahassee
January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
The Capital Medical Society created the Physicians' Outreach Project, a collaborative, volunteer effort to extend the services of the society's We Care Network to three adjacent rural counties: Gadsden, Jefferson and Wakulla counties.
Operation Access in San Francisco Coordinates Free Surgeries for Low-Income and Uninsured People
January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1998, staff at the Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition implemented a program called Operation Access to increase access to ambulatory surgery services for medically indigent patients in San Francisco.