Rutgers, Penn receive health-care awards

Posted: June 16, 2012

Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania were among 81 winners in the second round of Health Care Innovation Awards under the Affordable Care Act.

The Rutgers Center for State Health Policy will receive $14.3 million over three years to expand care-management programs developed by the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers for high-cost, high-need, low-income populations to four other cities, including Allentown, Pa.

Besides the Camden Coalition, Rutgers is also partnering with the Center for Health Care Strategies in Hamilton, N.J.

Two University of Pennsylvania awards totaled $9.2 million. One project will test ways to ensure that patients with coronary artery disease properly take their medications after discharge. The other will test a comprehensive set of home care services for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with advanced cancer, with the goal of avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations.

– Harold Brubaker

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