Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
Brief Project Description
Expecting Success is a $13 million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched in 2004 and designed to improve the quality of health care provided to minority Americans. The program focuses on the continuum of cardiovascular care delivered in inpatient and outpatient settings and has four goals:
- To improve cardiovascular care for African-Americans and Latinos.
- To develop effective, replicable quality-improvement strategies, models and resources.
- To encourage the spread of those strategies and models to clinical areas beyond cardiac care.
- To share relevant lessons with health care providers and policymakers.
Under the program, 10 competitively selected acute-care hospitals, or consortia of hospitals, serving substantial numbers of African-American and/or Latino patients will participate in a 29-month collaborative Learning Network designed to foster shared learning and innovation. The Center for Health Services Research and Policy in the Department of Health Policy serves as the National Program Office (NPO) for Expecting Success.
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