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March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The expansion of U.S. physician workforce training has been justified on the basis of population growth, technological innovation and economic expansion. Our analyses found threefold differences in physician full-time-equivalent (FTE) inputs for Med ...
June 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article describes how measures of staff turnover among long-term care workers are calculated differently by different provider organizations, which makes evaluating interventions designed to reduce staff turnover difficult. The authors urge for consistency across organizations.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article describes the Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) initiative. BJBC focused on the area of workforce improvement for direct care workers and was the result of collaboration between the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
As part of the Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) demonstration, direct care workers were asked for recommendations on how to improve their jobs. Across work settings, workers specified better pay and improved working relationships as key recommendations.
March 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With unprecedented numbers of Americans nearing old age, experts say the health care system will need tens of thousands more providers with training in geriatrics to handle the population’s increasing, and increasingly complex, needs. But too few ph ...
March 22, 2005 | Program Result
The New Jersey Office for the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, in collaboration with the Stein Ethics Network at the Cooper Health System in Camden, N.J., developed and organized the New Jersey Long-Term Care Ethics Network.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
RWJF's grant to the Institute for Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers supported a special three-part installment of "Caucus" entitled "New Jersey's Health Care Crisis."
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
The Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey, located in Camden, N.J., developed the Community Health Group program.
December 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Prudential Center for Health Care Research assessed the functional health literacy of 3,260 older Americans at four Prudential HealthCare sites in Cleveland, Ohio Houston, Texas Tampa, Fla. and south Florida.
December 1, 2000 | Program Result
Emory University School of Medicine assessed the prevalence of inadequate health literacy among patients presenting for outpatient acute care in two urban public hospitals, one in Atlanta and one in Los Angeles.