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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.  

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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.

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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.

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Promoting Diversity in the Health Workforce

This GIH Issue Focus outlines steps that health grantmakers can take to improve diversity in the health workforce.

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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.

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Clearing the Air: Addressing Asthma in America

This GIH Issue Focus explores foundation efforts to address rising asthma in their communities.

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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.

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Systemic Contaminants: Making Sense of an Environmental Health Threat

This GIH Issue Focus examines the causes and effects of systemic contaminants, and describes what grantmakers can do to respond.

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Strategies for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

This GIH Issue Focus s highlights racial and ethnic health disparities, explores their roots, and describes activities that foundations are undertaking to eliminate them.

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Strategic Initiatives: Finding Your Niche

This GIH Issue Focus answers common questions about strategic initiatives and provides examples to highlight the wide variety of health grantmaking being conducted through these initiatives.

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