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Each year the Foundation and our grantees produce materials that reflect our philanthropic investments. Below is a sampling—books, book chapters, journal articles, reports, audiovisuals and newsletters—produced in 2004. Copies may not be available throughthe Foundation.

Bronner E. “The Teaching Nursing Home Program.” In To Improve Health and Health Care, Vol. VII, Isaacs S and Knickman J (eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/files/publications/books/2004/chapter_04.html.

This chapter looks back on the Teaching Nursing Home Program, an effort RWJF funded between 1982 and 1987 to improve the quality of nursing home care and the clinical training of nurses by linking nursing schools with nursing homes.

The Center for Health Design. Designing the 21st Century Hospital: Serving Patients and Staff. Concord, CA: The Center for Health Design, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/Design21CenturyHospital.pdf.

Health care leaders met to discuss the state of the nation’s hospitals and a vision for their future. The focal point of the discussion was an analysis of over 600 studies connecting patient health and the quality of care to hospital design.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The Deep Dive: Transforming Care at the Bedside. Cambridge: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2004. Available at: www.ihi.org/ihi/files/TCAB/video/tcab_2.wmv.

In the summer of 2003 health care experts gathered to explore methods of improving bedside care in medical-surgical units. The session, called The Deep Dive, was facilitated by IDEO, a design and innovation consultancy, and captured on film.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Innovation Series: Transforming Care at the Bedside. Cambridge: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/transformingCareAtBedside.pdf.

This white paper outlines RWJF’s Transforming Care at the Bedside initiative, an effort to improve the quality of care in medical and surgical units.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Charting Nursing’s Future. Princeton: RWJF, 2004.

This issue brief discusses shortages and partnerships at the state level; ways to expand educational capacity to recruit, retain and graduate more nursing students; techniques to transform the nursing work environment; and an agenda for change.

Spetz J and Adams S. Employment-Based Benefits for Nurses. Princeton: RWJF, 2004.

An RWJF-supported study that provides an overview of what benefits are available to nurses as compared with the general workforce, how health care leaders are approaching the provision of employment-based benefits for nurses, and what nurses have to say about the employment-based benefits they receive and do not receive.

Ulrich R and Zimring C. The Role of the Physical Environment in the Hospital of the 21st Century: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity. Concord, CA: The Center for Health Design, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/RoleofthePhysicalEnvironment.pdf.

In this paper, the authors summarize lessons contained in a large body of research regarding improved hospital design’s effect on safety, healing, outcomes, health care quality and the work environment.