December 17, 2008
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Program Result Report
The position of community coordinator is a demanding one that can take an emotional toll, says Michael B. Leonard, D.D.S., associate coordinator of Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal.
December 17, 2008
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Program Result Report
Stacy Davis is a resident of Shreveport's Cedar Grove neighborhood who had - past tense, he makes plain - a rough life on the streets.
December 17, 2008
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Program Result Report
The sign reads 'Cedar Grove Garden of Love,' and on this bright spring day 79-year-old Margaret Myles is planting marigolds. "I want this place to be the prettiest place in the community," says Myles as she finishes her work.
October 17, 2008
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Program Result Report
The Foundation for the Mid South engaged stakeholders in a planning process to launch the Mid South Health Initiative, designed to identify strategies that would improve the health of people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
May 13, 2008
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Program Result Report
Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health defined its mission as to "transform and strengthen the public health system in the United States to make the system more effective, more community-based and more collaborative."
December 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
This report provides a thorough account of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's response to the 2005 Gulf States' disasters following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
The Southern Rural Access Program implemented a range of activities to increase access to health care services in rural, underserved areas of eight southern states.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
Due to his overall poor health, William Hewitt of Center, Texas, a 68-year-old retired manager of a chicken processing plant, needed to have his teeth removed in a hospital, at a cost well beyond his means. This sidebar recounts how the East Texas Health Access Network arranged for Hewitt to have his teeth removed and get new dentures, for out-of-pocket costs of just over $1,000.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
The West Virginia lead agency was the Center for Rural Health Development, a nonprofit organization created in 1994 to provide leadership in the state on rural health issues.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
The ability of the Louisiana project to help people after the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita added to its value, according to Michael Beachler, the national program director of the Southern Rural Access Program.
