Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Person-Centered Care (CARE-PC)
Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Person-Centered Care (CARE-PC)
The center is a hub for person-centered research across Rutgers that connects researchers with clinicians who are addressing health disparities and barriers to care among all populations.
The Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Person-Centered Care (CARE-PC)is across-disciplinary partnership mobilizing resources across the multiple schools and institutes of Rutgers Health. Our focus is to better enable patients across health systems to make informed health decisions and play a role in their own care. The center serves as a coordinated, interdisciplinary community of health care, health services, and public health research professionals working together to assess and address factors that impact care.
Breaking Down Barriers
Research outcomes that break down barriers stemming from cultural, language, social, and economic differences between clinicians, healthcare staff, and patients fosters greater communication, leading to enhanced care. This center is the core through which ideas, best practices, and learning are freely exchanged among university partners and with healthcare systems of New Jersey.
Our goal is to unite those whose mission is to improve patient outcomes and experiences, and to take root within the institutional structure as a means of continuous evaluation and learning within our health care organization.
Shawna Hudson, PhD
Director, Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Person-Centered Care (CARE-PC)
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Person-Centered Care Research
Our research areas and foci:
Promoting enhanced communication
Promoting health equity and addressing health disparities
Enabling patient-self management
Reducing patient and healthcare system uncertainty
Enhancing healthcare decision making
Addressing access to care and health system barriers
Core Members
Shawna Hudson, PhD, FSBM
Director, RWJMS Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Person-Centered Care (CARE-PC), Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Research, Professor, Vice Chair of Research and Henry Rutgers Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health, Vice Chancellor for Dissemination and Implementation Science, Rutgers Health, and Associate Director, NJ Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS)
