Jane Erickson*, Bobby Milstein*, Katherine Carman**, Sameer Siddiqi**, and Christopher Kelleher^
*ReThink Health, an initiative of The Rippel Foundation;
**RAND Corporation; ^Better Focus
Support for this report was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and the Rippel Foundation
Photos by Stacy Wegley Photography
Pulse Check 2016
Executive Summary
Full Report
Appendix
Pulse Check 2014
Executive Summary
Full Report
The authors would like to thank the contributors to the Pulse Check and the following people for their generous and insightful feedback:
Anita Chandra, RAND Corporation
Debra Dekker, National Association of County and City Health Officials
Peter Eckart, WE in the World
Roxanne Fulcher, Institute for People, Place, and Possibility
Emmy Ganos, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Marc Gourevitch, NYU Langone Health
Hilary Heishman, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Sara Ivey, Institute for People, Place, and Possibility
Martha Kovac, Mathematica
Peter Kralovec, American Hospital Association
Gloria Kupferman, American Hospital Association
Glenn Landers, Georgia Health Policy Center
Andrea Liebig, American Hospital Association
Lloyd Michener, Duke University
Karen Minyard, Georgia Health Policy Center
Nancy Myers, American Hospital Association
Christopher Nelson, RAND Corporation
Monte Roulier, Community Initiatives Network
Mona Shah, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Stephanie Stewart, RAND Corporation
Clare Tanner, Michigan Public Health Institute
Dara Taylor, Community Catalyst
Vivian Towe, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network
Nyna Williams, Mathematica
And The Rippel Foundation and ReThink Health team, especially:
ReThink Health is the flagship initiative of The Rippel Foundation, which is dedicated to fostering equitable health and well-being for all. ReThink Health discovers and shares what it takes to thrive together through shared stewardship and continually explores how to achieve equitable system change in real-world settings. Together with partners and co-investors, ReThink Health works with health care organizations, foundations, corporations, government institutions, and change agents throughout the United States to guide thinking and action that inspire innovative system transformation and to promote shared stewardship as a rising norm. For more information, visit www.rippel.org.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to improving health and health equity in the United States. In partnership with others, we are working to develop a Culture of Health rooted in equity that provides every individual with a fair and just opportunity to thrive, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they have. For more information, visit www.rwjf.org. Support for the Pulse Check report was provided in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of RWJF.
ReThink Health partnered with the RAND Corporation to design and author the 2021 Pulse Check. ReThink Health conducted a quality review, therefore this project did not undergo RAND Quality Assurance review.