Many RWJF grants are awarded through a network of more than 80 program groups, called national programs. By providing leadership, fostering communication and collaboration and serving as champions of innovation, national programs can help unite distinct efforts into a broader movement that can achieve social change. National programs are typically administered by universities, nonprofit groups or Foundation staff. Below is a list of current national programs.

Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered and equitable care.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
To undertake a hospital quality improvement collaborative to improve cardiac care for African Americans and Latinos.

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To test hypothetical solutions for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care settings and actual disparity reduction outcomes in ongoing programs.

Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.

Medicaid Managed Care Program
Program to improve the quality of and access to Medicaid managed care by working with states, health plans, and consumer groups.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network
To support hospitals in improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency.

Transforming Care at the Bedside®
To create, test and spread prototype hospital nursing unit-level strategies to improve the work environment and quality of care.

Advancing Diabetes Self-Management
Program to expand and test multicomponent self-management programs that could be delivered in primary care settings and improve outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care
To support partnerships among local health care providers and community organizations to address diabetes prevention and self-management issues in communities where cultural and ethnic diversity influence related health behaviors.

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
To support policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with useful and timely information on health care policy and financing issues.

Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos
To improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.

Health Tracking
To track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.

Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
To support systematic research in the evaluation of interactive eHealth applications for health behavior change and chronic disease management.

New Health Partnerships: Improving Care by Engaging Patients
To support pilot testing of innovations to overcome barriers to patients managing their chronic conditions, including an online collaborative, a virtual learning community for providers, and a virtual learning community for patients and families.

Partnerships for Quality Education
Program to train primary care residents and nurse practitioners to deliver high-quality care for patients with chronic illnesses within the fixed-budget constraints of managed care.

Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
To develop, field test and disseminate innovative and feasible interventions for primary care-based health behavior change counseling, in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Rewarding Results: Aligning Incentives with High-Quality Health Care
To invent, prove and diffuse innovations in systems of provider payments and nonfinancial incentives that will encourage and reward high-quality care.

Southern Rural Access Program
Program to increase access to health care services in eight rural underserved states.

State Action for Oral Health Access
Program to test innovative, comprehensive state approaches to improving access to oral health services for low-income, minority and disabled populations.

Urgent Matters
Program to support the development and implementation of best practices to relieve emergency department overcrowding, and help communities understand the interdependence between the health care safety net and the rest of the delivery system.