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May 8, 2013
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Feature
Newly released federal data shows pricing for common inpatient procedures varies greatly, and allows consumers to see how hospital charges in their area compare nationally and regionally for the same procedure.
November 18, 2009
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Program Result Report
Tanya Ott, a traditional public radio station journalist, and Connie Kohler, Dr.P.H., a professor who produces radio soap operas for an African-American audience, teamed up to take on the stigma and social cost of mental illness in the Bible Belt state of Alabama.
November 18, 2009
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Program Result Report
New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) built on the awareness of an audience drawn to a previous NHPTV project, the 2004 broadcast of a program called "The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's," and its related outreach throughout the state.
April 16, 2008
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Program Result Report
In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine sponsored four public workshops across the country to engage key policy-makers and stakeholders in a discussion of the state of emergency care in the United States.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2000, the Council of Better Business Bureaus' Foundation (now the BBB Wise Giving Alliance) strengthened its capacity to help community-based voluntary nonprofit organizations across the nation establish clear and uniform standards of performance and accountability as public trusts, through its network of 128 local bureaus.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
This 1996-1998 project, conducted by Jinnet B. Fowles, Ph.D., and researchers at the Institute for Research and Education in Minneapolis, evaluated how consumer-based reports cards affect institutional behavior in the health care market.
May 9, 2008
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Program Result Report
Sound Partners for Community Health funded efforts by public broadcasters and their partners to increase public awareness of health issues and to facilitate citizens and policy-makers in taking a more informed and active role in health issues at the local level.
June 18, 2012
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Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2011, National Public Radio expanded its on-air and online reporting on health and health care, and its use of podcasts and social media extended the reach of that reporting.
October 12, 2011
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Program Result Report
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism designed, developed and maintained a new website with extensive resources to enhance the ability of journalists to cover health care issues.
June 20, 2011
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Program Result Report
The free web-based Community Tool Box is designed to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources. It is available in English and Spanish.
July 29, 2009
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Program Result Report
Between 2003 and 2008 the Health Reporting Unit at National Public Radio: produced 4,650 health and health care-related stories, and hired veteran health correspondent Julie Rovner as a full-time reporter, focusing on health care and health policy.
