Multi-Million Dollar Effort To Improve US Health Care To Be Announced By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Main Category: Public Health
Article Date: 24 May 2008 - 2:00 PDT

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Disparate quality care nationwide spurs largest health care philanthropy to attack the problem in communities across America

What:

• Announcement of a multi-million dollar investment to improve quality in 14 regions nationwide
  
  
• New Dartmouth Atlas data, commissioned for the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative, demonstrates significant variations in the quality of people's health care nationwide

Who:

• Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  
  
• Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H., research professor in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center
  
  
• Other health care luminaries and representatives from communities nationwide will be connected via satellite to offer their experiences

When:

Thursday, June 5, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET

Where:

National Press Club
Holeman Lounge
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, D.C.

Why:

The news conference will offer unique perspectives into the complex and precarious state of the quality of U.S. health care and what can be done to improve it.

The event combines never-before-seen research from the Dartmouth Atlas Project with the personal experiences of doctors, patients, nurses and community leaders. The conference will provide valuable insight into the realities about what it takes to improve the quality of U.S. health care on the ground.

Discussions will:

• Explain the Foundation's signature effort to improve health care quality
  
  
• Introduce unique "on the ground" understanding from multiple communities about real-world challenges of improving America's health care
  
  
• Unveil new Dartmouth Atlas research that reveals significant insights into dramatic variations in the quality of care Americans receive depending on their location and race

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Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
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Source: Jonathan Osmundsen
Manning Selvage & Lee