Exhibit 2.1:   National Workforce Programs, by Date

Medical School Student Aid Program

  • Financial aid for women, minority, and rural medical students
  • 1972–1978
  • $12,600,000 awarded

Preprofessional Minority Programs

  • Enrichment programs for potential medical school candidates
  • 1972–1992
  • $13,300,000 awarded

Clinical Scholars Program

  • Two-year postresidency fellowships in nonbiomedical health sciences for physicians committed to clinical medicine
  • 1973–1998
  • $85,500,000 authorized
  • Currently, thirty-four Clinical Scholars a year are appointed (eight are funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs); 707 scholars completed the program through 1996
  • Training is currently offered at the following medical centers: Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, University of California-Los Angeles, North Carolina, Washington, and Yale. It was offered in the past at University of California-San Francisco and Stanford (a joint program that ran between 1974 and mid–1996), Case Western Reserve (1970–76), Columbia (1975–78), Duke (1969–75; this site was funded under the original program of the Carnegie Corporation and Commonwealth Fund and was not continued when The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation took over the program), George Washington (1975–79), McGill (1970–81), and Pennsylvania (1974–mid–1996)

Dental School Student Aid Program

  • Financial aid for women, minority, and rural dental students
  • 1973–1978
  • $4,000,000 awarded

Health Policy Fellowships Program

  • One-year fellowships (three-month orientation organized by the Institute of Medicine followed by a nine-month assignment in Congress or executive branch) in Washington, D.C.
  • 1973–1998
  • $7,000,000 authorized
  • Six fellowships a year are awarded; 133 fellows completed the program through 1996

National Medical Fellowships

  • Financial aid for minority medical students
  • 1973–1996
  • $10,200,000 authorized

Primary Care Residency Program

  • Primary care training for internal medicine and pediatric residents
  • 1973–1981
  • $10,800,000 awarded to the following medical centers or hospitals: Boston City Hospital, Florida, Harvard, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rochester, UCLA, UCSF, Washington

Dental Training for Care of the Handicapped

  • Development of training programs to improve dental treatment of handicapped patients
  • 1974–1979
  • $4,900,000 awarded to eleven dental schools: Alabama, UCLA, Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Tennessee, and Washington

United Student Aid Funds

  • Financial assistance
  • 1976–1985
  • $7,500,000 awarded

Nurse Faculty Fellowship Program

  • One-year fellowships to develop core nurse-practitioner faculty
  • 1977–1982
  • $4,800,000 awarded to four nursing schools: Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, and Rochester
  • Twenty fellowships a year were awarded; ninety-nine fellows completed the program

Primary Care Training for Emergency Nurses

  • Certificate training in primary care for nursing staff of rural hospitals
  • 1977–1982
  • $1,900,000 awarded to six hospital training sites

Family Practice Faculty Fellowships Program

  • Two-year postresidency fellowships in family practice for physicians planning academic careers
  • 1978–1988
  • $11,200,000 awarded. Five medical centers offered fellowship training initially: Case Western Reserve, Iowa, Missouri-Columbia, Utah, and Washington-Seattle. It was later reduced to three (Washington-Seattle, Missouri-Columbia, and Case Western Reserve)
  • Twelve fellowships a year were awarded; 101 fellows completed the program

General Pediatric Academic Development Program

  • Two-year fellowships to train future pediatric faculty in general pediatrics
  • 1979–1988
  • $10,900,000 awarded to six academic medical centers: Duke, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Rochester, Stanford, and Yale
  • Twelve fellowships a year were awarded; 111 pediatricians completed the program

Clinical Nurse Scholars Program

  • Two-year scholarships to develop a core nursing faculty skilled in research, clinical practice, and management
  • 1982–1991
  • $11,000,000 awarded for training at three sites: Pennsylvania, Rochester, and UCSF
  • Nine scholarships a year were awarded; sixty-two scholars completed the program

Dental Services Research Scholars Program

  • Two-year fellowships to train dental faculty in nonclinical health sciences and health services
  • 1982–1990
  • $5,000,000 awarded for training at two sites (Harvard and UCLA)
  • Five scholarships a year were awarded; thirty scholars completed the program

Minority Medical Faculty Development Program

  • Four-year postdoctoral research fellowships for minority physicians committed to careers in academic medicine
  • 1984–2000
  • $59,400,000 authorized
  • Currently, twelve fellowships a year are awarded; sixty-seven fellows completed the program through 1996

Faculty Fellowships in Health Care Finance

  • Thirty-month fellowships—three-month (later changed to four) orientation at The Johns Hopkins University, followed by a nine-month (later changed to eight) assignment to a health care financing organization and up to eighteen months’ research
  • 1985–1994
  • $2,500,000 awarded
  • Six fellowships a year were awarded; sixty fellows completed the program

Minority Medical Education Program

  • Six-week summer program for minority college students considering medical school
  • 1988–1999
  • $15,300,000 authorized. As of 1996, eight sites offer training: Alabama, Baylor, Case Western Reserve, Chicago Consortium led by Rush University, United Negro College Fund (Fisk University/Vanderbilt), Virginia, Western Consortium led by the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Yale. The Illinois Institute of Technology was a site between 1988 and 1995.
  • 125 students a year are selected per site; 5,500 students have completed theprogram through 1996

Strengthening Hospital Nursing: A Program to Improve Patient Care

  • Grants to hospitals to improve patient care by restructuring services around the nursing staff
  • 1989–1995
  • A $26.8 million joint program with the Pew Charitable Trusts. RWJF awarded $16,500,000 for twenty planning grants, fifteen phase one implementation grants, and fourteen phase two implementation grants
  • Nursing Services Manpower Development Program
  • Four-year grants, on average, to institutions to attract more minorities and others (older women, single mothers) to nursing careers and to overcome the barriers to their entering the profession
  • 1989–1994
  • $3,200,000 awarded to institutions in seven states: California, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas

Generalist Physician Initiative

  • Grants to academic medical centers, in collaboration with HMOs, state governments, private insurers, hospitals, and community health centers, to increase the number of general internists, general pediatricians, and family practitioners
  • 1991–2000
  • $32,700,000 authorized planning grants were awarded to eighteen medical centers or consortiums in 1992; of these, fourteen received implementation grants: Boston, Case Western Reserve, Dartmouth, East Carolina, Hahnemann, Massachusetts, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, New York Medical College, Pennsylvania State, Texas-Galveston, SUNY/Buffalo, Virginia

Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program

  • Four-year grants to medical school faculty to conduct research related to primary care
  • 1993–2004
  • $27,800,000 authorized
  • Fifteen scholars a year are selected

Generalist Provider Research Initiative

  • Research on generalist/specialist mix and distribution and to evaluate the Foundation’s generalist programs in a larger context
  • 1993–1998
  • $3,000,000 authorized

Ladders in Nursing Careers (National Replication)

  • National replication of program developed in 1988 by the Greater New York Hospital Foundation. Grants to hospital associations to assist minority and other disadvantaged (e.g., single parents) housekeeping staff, nurses’ aides, and nurses to advance their careers.
  • 1993–1997
  • $4,900,000 authorized. Through the end of 1995, awards were made to hospital associations in nine states: Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Texas

Scholars in Health Policy Research

  • Two-year postdoctoral fellowships to economists, political scientists, and sociologists to conduct health care research
  • 1993–1999
  • $12,300,000 authorized
  • Twelve scholars a year are selected

Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research

  • Three years’ salary support for outstanding young researchers or eminent senior scholars to pursue health care research
  • 1994–1999
  • $18,000,000 authorized
  • Ten investigators are selected each year

Partnerships for Training: Regional Education Systems for Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse-Midwives, and Physician Assistants

  • Support of innovative and collaborative education models for training nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants in their own communities
  • 1995–2001
  • $14,000,000 authorized
  • Planning grants were made to organizations in twelve states: Arkansas,
  • California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin

Colleagues in Caring: Regional Collaboratives for Nursing Workforce Development

  • Grants to regional consortiums of nursing schools, hospitals, and nursing service providers and associations to assess and meet the nursing needs in the region
  • 1996–1999
  • $4,000,000 authorized

Project 3000 by 2000: Health Professions Partnership Initiative

  • Grants to academic medical centers, working in partnership with local schools, colleges, and community organizations, to attract minority high school students to health professions and to nurture their interest
  • 1996–2001
  • $5,000,000 authorized for grants to the following medical centers: Connecticut, Georgia, Louisville, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania/Hahnemann, South Carolina, and Wisconsin-Madison. Up to five additional sites will be selected in the future.

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