Healthcare Innovation January 31, 2023
Kate Judge, American Nurses Foundation’s executive director, says the focus now is on translating nursing innovations to more new settings
The American Nurses Foundation’s Reimagining Nursing Initiative (RN Initiative) has granted $14 million to 10 three-year pilot programs in 29 states to test nursing-led innovative solutions. In a recent interview, Kate Judge, ANF’s executive director, spoke with Healthcare Innovation about the impetus for the initiative and the goal of scaling up the pilots as widely as possible.
Judge said that the idea for the initiative goes back to a conversation she had before the pandemic with board member Greg Adams, who’s now the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and is also a nurse. He told her he often sits at the...