Helping Youngsters in Child Care Stay Healthy and Safe
This GIH Issue Focus tackles health and safety issues in child care settings, and outlines opportunities for grantmakers.
Expanding Access for the Uninsured: Building a Community Response
Foundations have made access to care a priority – convening community leadership, funding communitywide planning processes, facilitating health system change, expanding insurance coverage, building the capacity of safety net providers, and filling gaps in delivery of services. This Issue Focus features promising models and key lessons learned from across the country.
On Solid Foundations: Strengthening the Future of Health and Philanthropy
This report features keynote addresses by Lauren LeRoy, Bruce Vladeck, Ian Morrison, Steven Schroeder, and Martha Katz.
Putting Patient Safety into Practice: Strategies for Health Care’s Front Lines
Reducing medical errors and heightening patient safety are critical to health care quality improvement. This Issue Focus looks at specific error and patient safety issues and how grantmakers, researchers, hospitals, and health systems are working together to address them.
Findings from the 2001 Survey of New Health Foundations
This GIH Issue Focus highlights results from the latest GIH survey of new foundations, conducted between September and December 2001 among 166 identified grantmaking organizations.
Collaboration: Building Relationships to Improve Health
This GIH Issue Focus on collaboration draws from President & CEO Lauren LeRoy’s remarks at GIH’s 2012 Meeting, Collaborating for Change: Exploring Health Partnerships That Work.
Promoting Diversity in the Health Workforce
This GIH Issue Focus outlines steps that health grantmakers can take to improve diversity in the health workforce.
Filling the Gap: Strategies for Improving Oral Health
This GIH Issue Focus outlines factors affecting oral health, and provides suggestions on what health funders can do.
Clearing the Air: Addressing Asthma in America
This GIH Issue Focus explores foundation efforts to address rising asthma in their communities.
Advancing Quality through Improved Patient Safety
Despite the most sophisticated medical care in the world, each year more Americans die at the hands of our health care system than from some of life’s deadliest diseases. This Issue Focus presents information on what medical errors are, how they occur, and what strategies grantmakers can adopt to prevent them.