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Date:7/29/2009

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Greenville, South Carolina: Addressing Retention of Experienced Nurses While Promoting Safe Patient Handling at Greenville Hospital System

Nashville, Tennessee: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the "Smooth Moves" Safe Handling Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Lynchburg, Virginia: Implementing a Closed Staffing Model as a Nursing Retention Strategy at Centra Health at Lynchburg General Hospital

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Virtual Intensive Care Unit as an Alternative Environment for Critical Care Practice and Experienced RN Retention at Froedtert Hospital

The seven case studies examined: Bon Secours Richmond Health System; Scripps Health; Carondelet Health Network; Monongalia County General Hospital; Mitre Corporation; L.L. Bean; and First Horizon National Corporation.

The Lewin Group served as the National Coordinating Center for this initiative and provided coordination, technical support and data collection and analysis for the "Wisdom at Work" evaluation. The Lewin Group also developed the seven in-depth case studies of high performing organizations. To view both, visit www.rwjf.org/goto/wisdomatwork.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, we work with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years we've brought experience, commitment and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the heal
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