Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 5576 From Our Family to Yours: The Best of 2009 December 30, 2009 - For many of us here in the United States, the span from Christmas Day to New Year’s Day is a time spent enjoying the company of family and friends. As a year-end tribute to our first year of blogging, we’d like to highlight the following blog posts that feature the… Depression Care Pioneer Wins Research Award December 28, 2009 - We just recently found out that in our series of blogs highlighting the awards our excellent grantees won in November 2009, we missed one. At their annual meeting, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) presented Jurgen Unutzer with the APM Research Award. The award, created to recognize exceptional research and… Care of the Aging Patient January 05, 2010 - At the end of 2009, our friends at the SCAN Foundation saw the start of their new series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on the "Care of the Aging Patient: From Evidence to Action." This debut reflects several milestones--the emergence of new funders dedicated to aging… It's Good to Have Friends January 08, 2010 - Not only did the new SCAN Foundation sponsored series, "Caring for the Aging Patient: From Evidence to Action" start late last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association, but on Tuesday January 5, 2010, the SCAN-sponsored special issue of Health Affairs, "Advancing Long-Term Services and Supports" was… The Loan Forgiveness Bandwagon Needs to Get Rolling January 13, 2010 - Most people agree that loan forgiveness for medical students who agree to undergo geriatrics training would be a good thing. The American Geriatrics Society has a nice summary of the topic here. However, the idea has yet to be practically implemented… with the exception of South Carolina. Click here to… SCAN, Health Affairs, and Long-Term Care: The Sequel January 21, 2010 - In addition to the good news of Health Affairs focusing on long-term care coupled with the additional bad news on hospital readmissions from skilled nursing facilities, as I reported a few weeks ago, this special issue of Health Affairs had many other features of interest. A non-exhaustive list includes: Susan… On Martin Luther King Day: Ageism and "Malignant, Metastatic Adulthood" January 18, 2010 - On the Martin Luther King Holiday, I think it is only right to think about ageism, which, along with racism and sexism, is a fundamental barrier to achieving the more just and equitable society that we desire. Coincidentally, over the weekend, I had an opportunity to hear from Bill Thomas… Achieving Better, Less Costly Chronic Care January 28, 2010 - Today is Thursday, January 28, 2010, and I am in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution. Along with the SCAN Foundation, we are sponsoring a forum on an issue fundamental to our mission to improve health and health care for older adults: changing how health care is delivered to achieve… Reducing Avoidable Readmissions January 25, 2010 - Unnecessarily high hospital readmissions rates have recently garnered headlines and received increased scrutiny from policymakers. Reducing avoidable readmissions has long been an important focus of our grantmaking. Now that our grantees have developed proven, evidence-based models like the Transitional Care Model , the Care Transitions Intervention, and Project BOOST, we… Solving Chronic Care at Brookings, Part II February 02, 2010 - Health reform may have stalled in Congress, but improving chronic care remains an urgent issue—perhaps more urgent than ever. So we at the Hartford Foundation were delighted with the strong turnout at the symposium we sponsored at the Brookings Institution in partnership with our colleagues at the Scan Foundation last…
