To help individuals and organizations learn more about improving the quality of health care and participate in the Remaking American Medicine campaign we have created this Resources section. Here's a brief overview of what you can find here:
Promotional materials, products and tools created to help your organization get fully engaged in the campaign. Also, scroll down to find the RAM Document Index, the Community Tool Box, and deliverable from PBS stations, QIOs and RAM coalitions.
Leadership Guide
Leadership Guide - This Guide is meant to serve as an informational and organizational tool that will support the national promotional campaign. Specifically, it is designed to serve as a resource for the scores of community based RAM coalitions that are already assembling across the country. You can download the entire document or in sections.
Patient- and Family-centered Care White Paper
One of the over-arching themes of the series and campaign. This document includes a series of strategies and tactics that should help coalitions engage their communities in a constructive dialogue as well as provide impetus for sustainable coalitions.
Find out more. HTML Version PDF Version
Campaign Newsletter
About Remaking American Medicine Campaign Newsletters
Read the latest RAM campaign news.
Promotional Flyer
Promotional Flyer (PDF file) - 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.)
Coalition Teleconfernce
On October 25, 2005 more than 50 people participated in the call, which highlighted some of the work local RAM coalitions are doing as part of the RAM campaign.
Read an edited version of the teleconference transcript Here:
PBS Primer - PDF Document
This PBS Primer is intended to help National Partners and QIOs plan an effective public outreach campaign in partnership with your local PBS and NPR stations. We hope this Guide will provide inspiration and assistance as you plan to work with your local stations and the PBS system to leverage your local resources for a more effective campaign. We anticipate that this document will be refined and expanded as you work with stations in coalition building, programming, promotion and outreach efforts.
- Other resources for PBS stations.
Video Clips
Campaign Photos
Pictures - The following pictures were taken during filming of the series. They may not appear in the final production. They are still RAM Champions of Change.
Media Kits
Localizable Media Kit (coming soon)
The index contains an extensive list of quality improvement products and tools developed by National Partners, Quality Improvement Organizations and other experts. As we learn about new products and tools that advance the quality improvement movement we will list them here.
PBS/QIO RAM Campaign Programming and Collateral Materials
Find out what QIOs and PBS stations are doing with Remaking American Medicine in their local communities.
Provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. This web site is created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and was developed in collaboration with AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Mass. Funding for the Tool Box was provided by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The site has been on line since 1995, and it continues to grow on a weekly basis.
This will take you to the site's searchable database. You can search state by state to find organizations participating in Remaking American Medicine coalitions, as well as best practice examples.
Here you will find the names and contact information for National Partners, Quality Improvement Organizations and PBS stations that are involved in the campaign. You can access links to these various organizations; many offer valuable tools and products on their individual Web sites.