Fund Seeks to Aid the Chronically Ill

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says it will spend $25-million in a five-year effort to improve the quality of health care that chronically ill patients receive from hospitals and other health-care systems.

The National Program for Improving Chronic Illness Care will help up to 120 health-care systems design and test a variety of programs for treating patients with illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, and heart disease.

The project will establish the