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Second Phase of RWJ Initiative Aims to Develop National Model of Care
By James Arvantes • Washington
During the first phase of the initiative, the grantees focused on improving health care for patients with chronic illnesses in outpatient settings, such as physician offices and clinics. With the new $300 million investment, RWJF is expanding the program, launching a second phase that will seek to accomplish four objectives:
- helping physicians improve the quality of care for patients;
- giving people information that helps them be better partners with their doctors in managing their own health and making informed choices about their health care;
- improving care inside hospitals, with a special focus on the central role that nursing plays; and
- reducing care inequities among patients of different races and ethnicities.
RWJF launched the first phase of the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative in 2006, and chose the project's 14 areas, which together account for 11 percent of the U.S. population, for their "unique assets" and ability to create better health care systems in their respective communities, Siegel said.
"We are aiming for something revolutionary because getting all the major entities who influence health care in any one place to agree on common goals related to improving care is not easy work," said Siegel. "We are not embarking on this without a sense of the enormous risks involved. But we think the greater risk lies in not doing anything."
Under the project's second phase, project grantees will receive money and a massive amount of assistance and expertise from RWJF, according to Siegel. The RWJF will work to make sure that the "enormous wealth of knowledge and best practices the foundation, its partners and grantees have amassed over the years gets to the right places."
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of RWJF, noted during the press conference that the initiative is national in scope even though it is focused on 14 communities in California, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin.
"We are adopting this approach because we know that health care quality is a national problem and a problem for us all," said Lavizzo-Mourey. "But health care is delivered locally, and that is where the fixes must be implemented."
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