AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance, Phase 3

Since 2010, The Commonwealth Fund has supported the Association of Health Care Journalists’ successful fellowship program allowing midcareer reporters to examine a local health system to determine what makes it effective or ineffective in delivering high-value care to its community. Fourteen fellows have completed, or are currently completing, fellowships since the program’s inception. A renewal of the program is proposed for another two-year term, based on the continuing need for such journalist training and the promise shown in the past four years. Under the new grant, eight fellows will produce in-depth stories, in various media formats, that spotlight a health system and translate what makes it effective, or ineffective, in delivering the right care at the right price.