June 28, 2012
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School expanded the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) to include data on strokes and published 21 articles on their research.
June 20, 2012
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Program Result
From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.
November 22, 2011
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Program Result
The Princeton Center for Leadership Training partnered with 13 New Jersey high schools to implement Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention curriculum, as part of the New Jersey Health Initiatives program.
November 22, 2011
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Program Result
The School-Based Youth Services Program incorporated Safe Dates - a dating abuse prevention course - into the ninth-grade health curriculum at four vocational high schools in Essex County, New Jersey.
July 29, 2009
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Program Result
Smoke-Free New Jersey and Smoke-Free Philly conducted communications campaigns to ensure successful implementation of smoke-free indoor air laws in New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
May 11, 2009
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Program Result
From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.
April 1, 2006
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Program Result
From October 2000 through March 2005, staff at the Community Healthcare Resource Center of New Jersey worked to improve the performance and viability of New Jersey's network of local nonprofit community health centers. The resource center is a nonprofit technical assistance service created and partly staffed by the Community Foundation of New Jersey.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result
Three grants from RWJF partially funded the health outreach, educational, clinical, and counseling activities of the Latina Health Project of the Planned Parenthood Association of Mercer Area, in Mercer County, N.J.
October 15, 2004
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Program Result
From 1996 to 2002, Rutgers University College of Nursing, Piscataway, N.J., led a collaborative group of New Jersey nurses, nursing educators, nurse employers and health care policymakers that developed a nursing workforce data collection and supply-and-demand forecasting system that helped identify the state's growing nursing shortage and lead to establishment of a permanent state nursing workforce center....
February 1, 2002
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Program Result
From 1998 to 2000, researchers at the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey, a nonprofit affiliate of the New Jersey Hospital Association, identified areas of New Jersey with barriers to primary care access.