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Commentary
What Durban Can Teach Detroit: Getting Customers to Pay Their Water Bills
South Africa is proving that governments in poor cities can provide water and collect payment without turning off the water spigot. Detroit and Baltimore might consider exploring models like this that have been successfully tested in even more challenging settings.
Jul 29, 2015
News Release
Eliminating Racial and Socioeconomic Performance Gaps for Pennsylvania Students Could Have Boosted Economy by $44 ...
Eliminating race-ethnic and socioeconomic performance gaps for public school students in Pennsylvania could have boosted the state's gross domestic product by as much as $44 billion after 10 years.
Jul 13, 2015
Report
The Economic Impact of Achievement Gaps in PA Public Schools
Although Pennsylvania ranks high among U.S. states in average student performance, the achievement gaps between students classified by race-ethnicity, economic status, and parent education are among the widest nationally. Race-ethnic academic achievement gaps amount to an estimated annual cost of $1 billion to $3 billion in lost earnings.
Jul 13, 2015
Commentary
Nature and Nurture: What's Behind the Variation in Recent Medical Home Evaluations?
As demonstrated in Pennsylvania, conveners of medical home pilots are drawing from their early experiences to refine their intervention designs and improve their effectiveness. Such a learning process is likely to be a critical part of successfully implementing any new model of payment and care delivery.
Jun 19, 2015
Journal Article
Medical Home Intervention with Shared Savings Shows Quality and Utilization Improvements
A medical home intervention that paid bonuses to physician practices based on financial savings showed significant improvements in quality and use of some medical services relative to comparison practices.
Jun 10, 2015
Report
Evaluating Delaware Stars for Early Success: Year Two Report
In the second year of RAND's evaluation of Delaware's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), key findings offer insight into provider participation, the use of financial incentives, and the amount of technical assistance received by providers—all pointing to the importance of administrative data in a QRIS.
Jun 2, 2015
Journal Article
Using a Grocery List May Lead to Better Health Outcomes
A shopping list may be a no-cost, easily implemented tool to help high-risk, low-income individuals living in a food desert make healthier food choices.
May 12, 2015
Blog
Examining Police, Community Relations
The “Strengthening Police-Community Trust” panel held Wednesday at RAND's Pittsburgh offices felt ripped from the headlines, and from the outset the discussion was focused on what the moderator called “the intersection between the community and the police.”
May 8, 2015
Multimedia
Strengthening Police-Community Trust
In this Events @ RAND podcast, Pittsburgh Chief of Police Cameron McLay joins Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle and RAND's director of Safety and Justice, Brian Jackson, for a conversation about why building and maintaining trust between police and the public is critical for the health of American democracy.
May 6, 2015
Tool
Community Resilience: LEARN and TELL Toolkit
The LEARN and TELL Community Resilience Toolkit teaches people about community resilience so that they can teach others and—ultimately—help their communities remain strong in the face of economic downturns, violence, weather-related disasters, and other community stressors.
Apr 22, 2015
News Release
Project Aims to Improve Resilience Planning in Allegheny County and Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh region faces major challenges to stormwater management. These challenges could grow with climate change, complicating the investment decisions that need to be made for new or replacement infrastructure. The pilot study aims to take a first step toward improved stormwater and climate resilience planning at the county and city levels.
Apr 9, 2015
Commentary
Building the Best Pittsburgh Possible
Pittsburgh's journey toward its bright future has only just begun. To realize its potential, the city needs a vision as well as an innovative, inclusive, and data-driven approach to community development.
Apr 9, 2015
Multimedia
Building Urban Resilience: A Look at Challenges Facing the Pittsburgh Region Today and Tomorrow
RAND's Board of Trustees joined RAND donors and partners, as well as local Pittsburgh civic and community leaders, to discuss urban resilience efforts. Pittsburgh is at the forefront of municipalities considering how to develop resilience as a framework for managing change.
Apr 8, 2015
Journal Article
Where You Live Matters: Quality and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Schizophrenia Care in Four State Medicaid Programs
Care for Schizophrenia: it matters where you live.
Mar 19, 2015
Journal Article
Use of Pooled State Administrative Data for Mental Health Services Research
State mental health authorities routinely devote resources to collect data for state planning and reporting purposes. However, these data are rarely used in cross-state comparisons to inform state or federal policy development.
Feb 26, 2015
Commentary
Does Expanding Nurse Practitioner Autonomy Affect the Value of Care Delivered?
Given the high cost of health care in America, policymakers should be very concerned about the effect of expanded nurse practitioner autonomy on the value of care. However, to have a sensible policy debate, we need to admit that we hardly know anything about it.
Jan 28, 2015
Report
The Impact of Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners and Other Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Ohio
RAND Corporation researchers describe the effect of advanced practice registered nurses' (APRNs') scope of practice (SOP) laws on health-care access, quality, and costs and the potential effect of expanding APRN SOP specifically in the state of Ohio.
Jan 28, 2015
Multimedia
Insights About Marijuana Legalization in the United States
In this January 2015 Congressional Briefing, RAND researchers Beau Kilmer and Jonathan Caulkins present an overview of their new report, Considering Marijuana Legalization: Insights for Vermont and Other Jurisdictions.
Jan 21, 2015
News Release
Options and Issues Regarding Marijuana Legalization in Vermont
If Vermont chooses to remove its prohibition on producing and selling marijuana, lawmakers will have many choices to make about who will supply it, who can buy it, if and how it will be taxed, and how it will be regulated. There are pros and cons to all policy options as well as uncertainty about how different forms of legalization will affect public health and safety.
Jan 16, 2015
Report
Insights for Vermont and Other States Considering Marijuana Legalization
If Vermont chooses to remove its prohibition on producing and selling marijuana, lawmakers will have many choices to make about who will supply it, who can buy it, if and how it will be taxed, and how it will be regulated. There are pros and cons to all policy options as well as uncertainty about how different forms of legalization will affect public health and safety.
Jan 16, 2015

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