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PRESS ROOM - Remaking American Medicine Press Kit - Introduction

The press kit was designed to assist National Partners, QIOs, PBS station and local RAM coalitions in promoting the series and the national outreach campaign. This kit includes descriptions for all four programs, stories about Champions of Change featured in the series, quality related statistics, Q&A's with the Exec. Producer and series host, photos and more. These publicity materials can be easily customized for use with the media, in newsletters and magazines, on Web sites and in formal presentations.

Remaking American Medicine™…Health Care for the 21st Century explores the quality crisis and the innovative solutions being undertaken by providers, patients and their families to transform the care provided by the institutions we all depend on. The four one-hour programs were broadcast on PBS on October 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 10 p.m. (check local listings).

NEW! - Watch preview clips of each of the four programs.

Quicktime:    Program 1    Program 2    Program 3     Program 4

Windows Media Version:   Program 1   Program 2   Program 3   Program 4

Two-and-a-half-minute series overview clip

Section 1 - Series and Programs

     Overall Series Synopsis

     Overall Series Press Release

     Series Advisory Panel

Press Releases:

1 - "Silent Killer"

2 - "First Do No Harm"

3 - "The Stealth Epidemic"

4 - "Hand in Hand"

Section 1 - Main Page

Section 2 - Champions of Change

Stories of people featured in the Series.

Dr. Don Berwick

Sorrel King

Julie Moretz

Dr. Anne Peters

Dr. Richard Shannon

Section 2 - Main Page

Section 3 - Campaign Materials

Bylined Articles: NEW

Dr. Carolyn Clancy - AHRQ
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey - RWJF

Other Materials:

Series Host - John Hockenberry

      Bio         Hockenberry Q and A NEW
National Partner List
Q and A with Frank Christopher
Crosskeys Media Bio

Quality of Care Statistics

Coalition Information

Section 3 - Main Page

Section 4 - Series Photos

Photos from each of the four episodes

New Photos Added

1 - "Silent Killer"

2 - "First Do No Harm" NEW

3 - "The Stealth Epidemic"

4 - "Hand in Hand" NEW

John Hockenberry Photos

Color     Black & White

Section 4 - Main Page

Section 5 - Artwork

Remaking American Medicine Logos

Color:

Web version GIF (.gif) - 9K
Low-resolution JPEG (.jpg) - 111K

High-resolution JPEG (.jpg) - 750K


Black and White:

Low-resolution JPEG (.jpg)-111K

Low-resolution GIF (.gif) -10K

Amgen Logo and Clip (for broadcast use)

Large Version 16 X 9 (.jpg) - 3.8 MB

Smaller Version 4 X 3 (.jpg) - 420 K

Quicktime Clip - Download it here

Section 5 - Main Page

Press Contacts:

Frank Christopher:

Ph: (805) 966-3700

E-mail: fc@crosskeysmedia.com

Matthew Eisen:

Ph: (619) 283-0480

E-mail: me@crosskeysmedia.com

Web site:

Contact webmaster@ramcampaign.org

if you you have any questions, or need

assistance with the materials in this kit.

NEW! - RAM Web site Banners: 

Several versions of RAM banners you can use on your web sites.

View them here  - Web Banners Page 

These materials are available for downloading, in several ways, in Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) PDF and Word (.doc) formats. You can download each piece separately, the entire kit or view the HTML verison by selcting from the links.

Other Materials

Style Guide

RAM Style Sheet - HTML Version     PDF Version

Promotional Flyer - NEW!

You can duplicate this new flyer and easily distribute it at local RAM coalition meetings or to people in your community.  (Just print front and back on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and fold over.)

Promotional Flyer (PDF file) PDF      Customizable Flyer (Word File)

News Releases

July 2005 - Quality Health Care Web Site Supports Remaking American Medicine

RAMcampaign.org, a new Web site, has been launched as the communications nerve center for groups participating in a nationwide quality improvement outreach campaign leading up to the broadcast of a PBS series Remaking American Medicine™…Health Care for the 21st CenturyRead entire release:  

        HTML Version       PDF Version