Innovations

What are innovations?
In this section, the Fund highlights practical tools, case studies, and innovative state strategies that can help you put sound policy into practice.

Featured Innovations

Evaluating Staff Morale in Safety Net Medical Home Adoption

With Commonwealth Fund support, Sarah Lewis, M.S.P.H., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues have developed two surveys and a scoring algorithm to capture the experiences of safety net providers and staff as they adopt medical homes.

Tools

A Guide to Developing State Child Health 'Improvement Partnerships'

February 24, 2009

Evaluating Medical Home Adoption in the Safety Net

July 18, 2011

Choosing Nursing Homes as Clinical Placement Sites: Six Educational Modules

April 14, 2011

INTERACT II: Education and Clinical Tools for Reducing Transfers from Nursing Homes to Hospitals

August 19, 2010

Case Studies

Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital: Five Years Without a Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection

December 28, 2011

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center: Seven Consecutive Quarters Without a Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection

December 28, 2011

Southern Ohio Medical Center: Eliminating Central Line Infections in the ICU

December 28, 2011

Bronson Methodist Hospital: Reducing Central Line Bloodstream Infections in Critical Care Units and Beyond

December 28, 2011

State Profiles

California First with Exchange Legislation Under National Reform

March 11, 2011

Utah Health Exchange

March 11, 2011

Massachusetts Health Connector

March 11, 2011

Missouri: Pioneering Integrated Mental and Medical Health Care in Community Mental Health Centers

January 20, 2011