Quality Health Care
Advancing Diabetes Self-Management
Program to expand and test multicomponent self-management programs that could be delivered in primary care settings and improve outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Technical assistance and direction for Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care and Advancing Diabetes Self-Management.
(1 year)
ID 50498
Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project
To support the first steps in accelerating improvements in care at the community level by cultivating and aligning market forces with quality improvement efforts.
Program Sites
Greater Detroit Area Health Council Inc.
Detroit, MI
$629,760
(3 years)
ID 52015
Healthy Memphis Common Table
Germantown, TN
$605,827
(3 years)
ID 51566
MN Community Measurement
St. Paul, MN
$634,404
(3 years)
ID 57377
Puget Sound Health Alliance
Seattle, WA
$616,516
(3 years)
ID 57378
Other Program Activities
Center for Health Improvement
Sacramento, CA
Technical assistance and direction for Aligning Forces for Quality.
$624,689
(1 year)
ID 51570
Consulting for Aligning Forces for Quality.
$42,614
(1 month)
ID 57451
Technical assistance for Aligning Forces for Quality.
$118,801
(1 year)
ID 58410
Consultant fund for technical assistance for Aligning Forces for Quality.
$110,000
(9 months)
ID 59086
Judith H. Hibbard, Dr.P.H.
Eugene, OR
Providing technical assistance to sites under Aligning Forces for Quality.
$57,527
(1 year)
ID 58907
Pennsylvania State University College of Health and Human Development
University Park, PA
Evaluation of Aligning Forces for Quality.
$499,698
(2 years)
ID 53019
Susan L. Prows
Portland, OR
Providing technical assistance to sites under Aligning Forces for Quality.
$81,558
(1 year)
ID 59291
American Board of Medical Specialties Research & Education Foundation
Evanston, IL
Preparing the physician workforce to improve performance in practice.
$749,433
(1 year)
ID 55708
Avalere Health, LLC
Washington, DC
Analysis of the capacity and adequacy of New Jersey's health care system using metrics of access to care and provider supply.
$50,000
(5 months)
ID 58242
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Print and web-materials to educate senior management on organizational transformation aimed at improving quality of patient care.
$102,760
(1 year)
ID 58891
University of California, Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute
Los Angeles, CA
Conference on geographic transitions and the mental health of minority families.
$25,070
(6 months)
ID 57338
J. Emilio Carrillo, M.D., M.P.H.
Brooklyn, NY
RWJF senior fellow in residence working on disparities in health and health care.
$4,000
(6 months)
ID 58807
Center for Information Therapy, Inc.
Washington, DC
Conference focusing on the role of the marketplace and consumers in improving health care quality.
$46,498
(3 months)
ID 56927
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Initiative to increase the number of hospitals that have the capability to provide quality palliative care; create sufficient momentum that hospital-based palliative care becomes a standard practice in comprehensive patient care; and provide leadership in the development of standards for palliative care programs.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
New York, NY
Matching other funders' support of the Center to Advance Palliative Care.
$5,000,000
(5 years)
ID 55713
Communications Projects
Multiple Contractors
Consulting and meeting costs for the Foundation's Quality program area.
$50,000
(7 months)
ID 57455
Dartmouth Medical School Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Hanover, NH
Developing publication guidelines for quality improvement.
$299,992
(2 years)
ID 58073
East Kentucky Health Services Center, Inc.
Hindman, KY
Developing and implementing an electronic health records program for rural primary care clinics.
$49,893
(1 year)
ID 57372
Endocrine Society
Chevy Chase, MD
Developing strategies to increase minority involvement in clinical trials.
$50,000
(15 months)
ID 57750
Eve Shapiro Medical Writing
Bethesda, MD
Background paper on hospital experience with apology after medical errors and the reduction in medical malpractice claims.
$10,326
(5 months)
ID 58785
Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
Program to support systematic research in the evaluation of interactive e-health applications for health behavior change and chronic disease management.
Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc.
Boston, MA
Technical assistance and direction for Health e-Technologies.
$426,345
(1 year)
ID 48514
Health Tracking
Initiative to track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.
Center for Studying Health System Change
Washington, DC
Health Tracking Household Survey.
$2,499,786
(18 months)
ID 57849
Planning for the 2007 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey.
$295,587
(1 year)
ID 57893
Providing funds to allow for quick strike analyses of emerging issues in the health care system.
$99,931
(5 months)
ID 57894
Planning and fielding an employer survey in the state of Massachusetts.
$642,197
(30 months)
ID 57895
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing
Chicago, IL
End-of-life toolkit for nursing school faculty and practicing nurses.
$30,431
(1 year)
ID 53123
Improving Asthma Care for Children
Program to improve the management of asthma for children covered by Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Steege/Thomson Communications, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
Dissemination of lessons from the Pediatric Asthma Initiative.
$400,000
(18 months)
ID 52807
Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.
Group Health Cooperative
Seattle, WA
Transitional support for building the field of chronic illness care.
$1,498,591
(3 years)
ID 53022
Adding a research associate to help provide research on and dissemination of the Improving Chronic Illness Care model.
$185,728
(2 years)
ID 58194
Leap Frog Group
Washington, DC
Implementation and dissemination of an effort to promote high-quality health care through rewards and incentives.
$1,121,772
(1 year)
ID 53409
Manning Selvage & Lee, Inc.
Washington, DC
Strategic communications for the Foundation's Quality program area.
$699,650
(6 months)
ID 53030
Communications support to the Dartmouth Atlas research project.
$100,000
(9 months)
ID 58802
National Academy of Sciences–Institute of Medicine
Washington, DC
Workshops for disseminating reports on the future of emergency care in the U.S. health system.
$100,000
(1 year)
ID 56237
Roundtable on health disparities to address developing solutions and encouraging communication.
$150,000
(2 years)
ID 56387
Forum on the science of quality improvement and implementation.
$622,207
(18 months)
ID 58291
National Partnership for Women and Families Inc.
Washington, DC
Building consumer demand for health care transparency and accountability in outpatient care.
$787,398
(1 year)
ID 52755
National Quality Forum
Washington, DC
Identifying and assessing disclosure of health care cost and price information.
$113,980
(7 months)
ID 59115
Pacific Business Group on Health
San Francisco, CA
Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project: advocating for transparency and accountability in the health care system.
$681,348
(1 year)
ID 56186
Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
To develop, field test and disseminate innovative and feasible interventions for primary-care-based health behavior change counseling, in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Fitzsimons
Aurora, CO
Technical assistance and direction for Prescription for Health.
$749,581
(1 year)
ID 48433
Costs for expenditure study incentive for sites under Prescription for Health.
$54,500
(1 year)
ID 56912
Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
Evaluation of Prescription for Health.
$488,616
(2 years)
ID 53221
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Cambridge, MA
Technical assistance and direction for Pursuing Perfection.
$214,319
(18 months)
ID 57336
Rewarding Results: Aligning Incentives with High-Quality Health Care
Initiative to invent, prove and diffuse innovations in systems of provider payments and nonfinancial incentives that will encourage and reward high-quality care.
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Meeting to disseminate lessons learned from Rewarding Results.
$34,989
(3 months)
ID 58579
Rutgers, The State University, The Center for State Health Policy
New Brunswick, NJ
Conference on the economics of nursing including nursing care, quality and reimbursement of care.
$150,000
(7 months)
ID 59289
Medical College of Wisconsin Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
Developing required and elective courses for medical students in palliative care.
$513,694
(2 years)
ID 57511