Publications
Papers/ROOTS
Reports on specific Jewish Healthcare Foundation efforts to improve healthcare quality and safety and document healthcare sector needs.
ROOTS: Putting the Prime in Primary Care
May 2013
ROOTS: Transforming Medical Education - Preparing Physicians to Lead Reform
February 2013
ROOTS: Answering the Call - EMS Applies PPC to Prehospital Care
September 2012
PRHI Readmission Brief: Patterns of Hospitalizations Among HIV-Positive Patients in Southwestern PA (updated)
April 2012
PRHI Readmission Brief: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
December 2011
ROOTS: Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives - Essential Elements for Successful Healthcare Reform
February 2011
A Series Six of Monographs Comparing the Israel and U.S. Healthcare Systems (1 of 6)
January 2011
In our ongoing effort to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has engaged international health policy experts to explore alternative methods of delivery and payment.
As part of this work, JHF asked the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem, an affiliate of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, to prepare a series of six monographs comparing the Israel and U.S. healthcare systems along key dimensions.
Monograph 1 Healthcare U.S. and Israel
A Series of Six Monographs Comparing the Israel and U.S. Healthcare Systems (2 of 6)
January 2011
Monograph 2 Israel Health Care-U.S. Audiences
A Series of Six Monographs Comparing the Israel and U.S. Healthcare Systems (3 of 6)
January 2011
Monograph 3 Role of Government
A Series of Six Monographs Comparing the Israel and U.S. Healthcare Systems (4 of 6)
January 2011
Monograph 4 Primary Care
A Series of Six Monographs Comparing the Israel and U.S. Healthcare Systems (5 of 6)
January 2011
Monograph 5 Manage-Physician
A Series of Six Monographs Comparing the Israel and U.S. Healthcare Systems (6 of 6)
January 2011
Monograph 6 Workforce and Medical Education
Policy Briefs from July 2010 "Foundations and Healthcare Reform Conference" at Brandeis University
August 2010
Links to the Briefs can be found in the PDF; scroll to July 27-28, 2010.
PRHI Readmission Brief: Patterns of Hospitalizations Among HIV-Positive Patients in Southwestern PA
July 2010
PRHI Readmission Brief: Overview of Six Chronic Conditions
June 2010
ROOTS: Pharmacy Champions For Change - Wrong Medication, Bad Chemistry
September 2009
ROOTS: Transforming Education Systems For The 21st Century Learner
March 2009
A report from the national High Schools & Careers Summit held in Pittsburgh.
ROOTS: The Healthcare Quality Revolution
May 2008
Celebrating 10 Years of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative
ROOTS - Incentives For Excellence - Rebuilding the Healthcare Payment System From The Ground Up
September 2007
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