Reimagining Nursing Initiative Seeks to Scale Up 10 Pilots

Kate Judge, American Nurses Foundation’s executive director, says the focus now is on translating nursing innovations to more new settings. The American Nurses Foundation’s Reimagining Nursing Initiative (RN Initiative) has granted $14 million to 10 three-year pilot programs in 29 states to test nursing-led innovative solutions. In a recent interview, Kate Judge, ANF’s executive director, spoke with Healthcare Innovation about the impetus for the initiative and the goal of scaling up the pilots as widely as possible. Judge said that the idea for the initiative goes back to a conversation she had before the pandemic with board member Greg Adams, who's now the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and is also a nurse. He told her he often sits at the table with companies like Google and Amazon and nursing really is not at the table. He challenged her team to come up with an idea to change that.