Thursday, August 26th, 2010
By Ed Howe
Former President and CEO, Aurora Health Care
Aligning Forces for Quality is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of healthcare in targeted communities. The goal is to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and to provide models for national reform.
Dr. John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., the Senior Vice President and [...]
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
By Kester Freeman
Retired CEO, Palmetto Health
A handful of hospitals are in the process of reforming healthcare and these changes are happening now, without any mandates from Washington. Imagine that!
The hospitals are participating in a program called QUEST: High Performing Hospitals, and a recent post on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health reform blog describes how [...]
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
In a New England Journal of Medicine poll released this week we learned that a strong majority of doctors (63 percent) support a public health insurance option. As found in a Reuters article, “When given a three-way choice among private plans that use tax credits or subsidies to help the poor buy private insurance; a [...]
Monday, June 9th, 2008
John Wennberg and his colleagues at the Dartmouth-based Center for Evaluative Services and The Dartmouth Atlas Project have documented huge and unwarranted variations to the cost and quality of health care in the U.S. for more than 20 years. Now, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is intervening with a commitment of $300 million to [...]
