Effectiveness of a grant program's efforts to promote synergy within its funded initiatives: perceptions of participants of the Southern Rural Access Program

作者: Donald E Pathman , Emmeline Chuang , Bryan J Weiner

DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-263

关键词: Community health planningCooperative behaviorPublic administrationNursingHealth informaticsNursing researchHealth carePublic healthMedicineHealth administration

摘要: Background Foundations and public agencies commonly fund focused initiatives for individual grantees. These discrete, stand-alone can risk failure by being carried out in isolation. Fostering synergy among grantees' is one strategy proposed promoting the success impact of grant programs. We evaluate an explicit to build within Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP), which awarded grants collaboratives eight southeastern U.S. states strengthen basic health care services targeted rural counties.

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