January 1, 2003
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In 2001, the National Commission on Partnerships for Children's Health held a conference of Southeastern state officials and higher education representatives on ways to form regional child-health collaborations.
September 1, 2002
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Program Result
Wake Forest University School of Law conducted an evaluation of the use of court-ordered mediation as a strategy for resolving medical malpractice disputes.
March 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Alpha Center for Health Planning, Inc., in Washington (now called the AcademyHealth), a nonprofit policy institute, offered technical assistance to states and facilities participating in a federal program designed to keep struggling rural hospitals open.
March 1, 2002
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Program Result
Starting in April 1998, Communities in Schools, a Virginia-based nonprofit stay-in-school network, sought to provide schoolchildren around the country with access to five key resources.
August 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1997 to 1999, staff at the Southern Institute on Children and Families (SICF) conducted a project designed to improve awareness among low-income families about benefits for which they are eligible, including Medicaid and child care.
September 30, 2000
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Program Result
From 1993 to 1996, Resources for Seniors opened a fourth adult day center in North Raleigh, N.C., and a began a program of aggressive marketing of it.
July 1, 2000
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Program Result
The Greater Cleveland Hospital Association developed a PC-based computer program that forecasts the demand for nurses.
June 1, 2000
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Program Result
In 1998, Laura Sessions-Stepp, a reporter on leave from The Washington Post, carried out research for a book on the developmental needs of young adolescents and adult responses to those needs.
May 31, 2000
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Program Result
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a three-state research study to assess state legislators' intentions to support or oppose tobacco-control legislation.
April 1, 2000
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Program Result
A project team at Children's Hospital Corporation in Boston determined how to organize, deliver, and finance services for technology-dependent children who have made the transition from hospital to the public schools. These are children who are on long-term oxygen therapy, ventilatory assistance, intravenous feedings, and other types of highly technical care. Then they replicated the project.
