January 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1991 to 1994, researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health evaluated the extent to which eight state risk pools that were established in 1988 or earlier have increased access to health insurance and health care.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1991 to 1995, researchers at the University of Southern Maine, Human Services Development Institute compared health care utilization rates between previously uninsured and previously insured persons enrolled in state-sponsored insurance programs.
April 4, 2007
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Program Result
Communities in Charge is a program to help broad-based community coalitions design and establish sustainable health care delivery systems.
April 6, 2007
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Program Result
In 2001, MaineHealth, a nonprofit health system serving southern and central Maine, established CarePartners, a health plan using a network of providers offering volunteer care to the uninsured.
March 1, 2006
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Program Result
SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., produced a series of five reports documenting the health and social progress and challenges of the nation's 100 largest cities and their suburbs between 1990 and 2000.
October 1, 2005
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Program Result
From September 1997 through January 2003, researchers at Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Cambridge, Mass., studied how a change in ownership from nonprofit to for-profit status ("conversion") affected hospitals' provision of community benefits, financial performance and relationships with other health care providers.
February 1, 2002
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Program Result
In 2000, Families USA, Washington, held its fifth annual national education conference for consumer health advocates.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health examined the short- and long-term impact that conversions of hospitals from nonprofit to for-profit status have on their communities.
July 31, 2008
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Program Result
In this 2004 to 2005 project, Robert J. Town, PhD, and a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between managed care and hospital consolidation and the impact of hospital consolidation on consumers.
April 15, 2011
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Program Result
Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.
