RWJF

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. The Foundation seeks:

• To assure that all Americans have access to quality health care at reasonable cost.
• To improve the quality of care and support for people with chronic health conditions.
• To promote healthy communities and lifestyles.
• To reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse— tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs.

For more than 30 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. By helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in our lifetime.

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care

Over the past few decades, the Foundation has supported many projects and programs with particular emphasis on helping specific racial or ethnic minority groups, based on research that shows the negative impact of certain health and health care problems on populations of color. More broadly, the Foundation is committed to improving the quality of care for all Americans, especially the most vulnerable among us.

The Foundation’s Disparities strategy is specifically aimed at helping health care systems—including purchasers, providers and consumers of health care—ensure that addressing racial and ethnic disparities in treatment is a high priority in their ongoing efforts to improve the quality of patient care. By focusing on the gaps in care that racially and ethnically diverse patients experience in greater proportions, the Foundation believes the quality of health care can and will improve for all patients.

To learn more about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and its Disparities strategy, visit its web site: www.rwjf.org

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation®
P.O. Box 2316
College Road East and Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08543-2316
(888) 631-9989