December 16, 2008
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Program Result
In 2003, St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho got a jolt when the marketing department conducted routine focus groups among community members.
October 17, 2008
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Program Result
Researchers at Duke University built a model based on geographic information systems to integrate highly localized geographic data with other health, demographic and environmental data to analyze local health issues in six NC counties.
July 11, 2008
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Program Result
Project Access, which provides access to specialty and chronic health care for low-income uninsured people of Buncombe County, N.C., expanded its services from August 1994 through July 1998.
June 12, 2008
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Program Result
Had there been no Local Funding Partnerships program, the Wilmington community would have developed the health center anyway - but more slowly and with greater difficulty, according to the executive director of Wilmington Health Access for Teens.
August 1, 2007
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Program Result
North Carolina conducted a study to assess the extent to which bacteria, antibiotics-resistant bacteria, antibiotic residues and nitrates are released from animal-feeding operations into groundwater aquifers and drinking-water supplies.
August 1, 2007
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Program Result
South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces (SEEDS) in Durham, N.C., expanded Durham Inner-City Gardeners (DIG) - a program that teaches teenagers about organic farming and healthy eating habits.
January 17, 2007
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Program Result
The Buncombe County Health Center expanded mental health services at three school-based health centers in Buncombe County, N.C.
December 1, 2005
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Program Result
A faith-based organization in Charlotte, N.C. recruited and trained members of congregations to help HIV/AIDS patients living in African-American and rural white communities in a 13-county area of the Carolinas.
October 1, 2005
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Program Result
North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, N.C., advanced its tobacco use prevention and control mission by establishing three youth-led tobacco use prevention centers across the state.
October 14, 2004
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Program Result
In the period 1999–2002, staff at the Hospice for the Carolinas (later renamed the Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care), Cary, N.C. helped establish a statewide coalition, the North Carolina End-of-Life Care Coalition.
