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Impact Story: Project Finds Lean Process Improvements Can Benefit the Bottom Line at Safety Net Hospitals
A demonstration project facilitated by the Institute for Medical Quality and funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation has shown that three safety net hospitals in the Los Angeles area successfully used lean process improvement to reduce ED length of stay.
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Upcoming Phase I Application Deadline
Phase I Applications for the Friday, November 1, 2019 deadline must be submitted no later than 4:30pm (PT) on deadline day. Program information and submission instructions can be found under the following links:
Research Program Phase I Information
Southern California Program Phase I Information
Impact Story: The Deep-Time Data Infrastructure
A diverse team of researchers from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, RPI, Rutgers, and the University of Arizona, led by principal investigator, Robert M. Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science, have explored new ways to analyze and visualize the evolution of minerals, fossils, rocks, proteins, and planetary systems through billions of years of Earth history.
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Keck Foundation Gives $20 million to UCLA
A $20 million gift to UCLA will fund competitive biomedical research grants and support the renovation of the UCLA Medical Plaza, one of Southern California’s busiest outpatient care centers. The gift brings the W.M. Keck Foundation’s total giving to UCLA to $55 million, and its giving to University of California campuses to more than $165 million.
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