New England Medical Center Hospitals, Inc.

Project Title: Validating a Public-Domain Developmental Screening and Surveillance Instrument for Young Children, Phase 2
Principal Investigator: Ellen C. Perrin, M.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $208,096

Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of Primary Care Practice Redesign on Quality, Cost, and Patient Experience
Principal Investigator: Lisa Kern, M.D., M.P.H., and Rainu Kaushal, M.D., M.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $300,000

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Project Title: Evaluating a Medical Home Demonstration in Colorado and Ohio
Principal Investigator: Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $466,890

Medical College of Wisconsin

Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of Public Reporting on Quality of Care in Wisconsin
Principal Investigator: Geoffrey C. Lamb, M.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $295,889

Johns Hopkins University

Project Title: Cross-National Comparisons of Health Systems Quality Data, 2009
Principal Investigator: Gerard F. Anderson, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $61,000

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Project Title: Evaluating a Medical Home Plan Coupled with Innovative Payment Reform for Primary Care, Phase 1
Principal Investigator: David Bates, M.D., M.Sc.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $223,439

Health Research and Educational Trust

Project Title: Identifying Best Practices to Improve the Performance of Multi-Hospital Systems
Principal Investigator: Maulik Joshi, Dr.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $289,694

AcademyHealth

Project Title: The Commonwealth Fund/AcademyHealth Long-Term Care Colloquium, Year 6
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. Rogal, M.P.P.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $170,906

IPRO, Inc.

Project Title: WhyNotTheBest.org: A Web Resource for Quality Improvement
Principal Investigator: Jaz-Michael King and Anthony Shih, M.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $274,611

The Urban Institute

Project Title: Improving Medicare's Performance Through Reform of Its Benefit Structure and Provider Payment System
Principal Investigator: Stephen Zuckerman, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $219,809

Harris Interactive, Inc.

Project Title: Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey, Year 4
Principal Investigator: Jordon Peugh, M.A.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $55,000

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Project Title: Developing New Measures of the Quality of Well-Child Care, Phase 2
Principal Investigator: Sarah Hudson Scholle, M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $294,690

Issues Research, Inc.

Project Title: Maintaining the National and State Scorecards and Developing Content for Case Studies, Newsletters, and Online Resources, 2009
Principal Investigator: Douglas McCarthy, M.B.A.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $316,770

The George Washington University

Project Title: A Policy Leadership Forum in Early Childhood Health and Development, Phase 2
Principal Investigator: Christine C. Ferguson, J.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $140,000

The George Washington University

Project Title: Identifying Payment and Financing Options to Promote High-Performance Community Health Centers
Principal Investigator: Peter Shin, M.P.H., Ph.D. and Leighton Ku, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 11, 2008
Award Amount: $192,343