Reflections from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on The Program to Strengthen Primary Care Health Centers

Given the modest amount of resources provided by the Foundation through The Program to Strengthen Primary Care Health Centers, the grantees undertook a high level of activity. Perhaps centers were aided by the momentum and focus of the Program in addition to financial resources. Such grants seem to move longer-range projects onto the daily agendas of managers. It might be worthwhile to convert some portion of federal community health center funding to support financial and managerial innovations. Generally, positive evaluation findings should encourage centers to explore some of the demonstrated initiatives. Evolution and innovation are considered key to the survival of primary care health centers.