Project Title: Support for the 2011 Activities of AcademyHealth's State Health Research and Policy Interest Group
Principal Investigator: Enrique Martinez-Vidal, M.P.P.
Date Awarded: December 17, 2010
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Innovations Across the Nation: Case Studies on Improving Health and the Delivery of Health Care While Reducing Costs
Principal Investigator: Susan Dentzer, M.A.
Date Awarded: December 17, 2010
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: How Will 2010 Insurance Reforms Affect Health Insurance Premiums in 2011?
Principal Investigator: Jon R. Gabel, M.A.
Date Awarded: December 17, 2010
Award Amount: $46,104
Project Title: Current Experience with Shared Savings Payment Models
Principal Investigator: Michael H. Bailit, M.B.A.
Date Awarded: December 17, 2010
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Laying the Groundwork for a Beacon Innovation & Learning Network
Principal Investigator: Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
Date Awarded: December 17, 2010
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Measure Stewardship for the CHIPRA Core Measure Focused on Standardized Screening
Principal Investigator: Colleen Peck Reuland, M.S.
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $8,398
Project Title: Environments of Culture Change: A Comparison of THE GREEN HOUSE MODEL® and Retrofitted Culture Change Environments
Principal Investigator: Amy E. Elliot, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $13,500
Project Title: Bending the Cost Curve Through Energy and Waste Reduction: Lessons from the Healthier Hospitals Initiative
Principal Investigator: Peter Orris, M.D., M.P.H.
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $49,940
Project Title: Supporting the National Association of Medicaid Directors' Health Reform Efforts
Principal Investigator: Chad Shearer, J.D., M.H.A.
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $25,541
Project Title: STAT! For New York City's Public Hospitals!
Principal Investigator: Susan Jacobs
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $3,000
Project Title: Establishment of a Fund for Public Health in San Antonio
Principal Investigator: Clarence R. Williams
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Survey of Capitation Contracting and Physician Compensation in Organized Delivery Systems
Principal Investigator: Robert E. Mechanic, M.B.A.
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $48,842
Project Title: Public Views on Health System Performance
Principal Investigator: Roz Pierson, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: December 7, 2010
Award Amount: $27,500
Project Title: Report on the California Health Benefit Exchange
Principal Investigator: Leif Wellington Haase, M.A., M.Phil.
Date Awarded: November 22, 2010
Award Amount: $17,500
Project Title: Case Studies of Innovation and High Performance for WhyNotTheBest.org
Principal Investigator: Sharon Silow-Carroll, M.S.W., M.B.A.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $308,759
In addition to presenting publicly available data on a wide range of quality-of-care and process measures, the Fund Web site WhyNotTheBest.org offers health care providers a number of other resources, including case studies of high-performing hospitals and health systems.