April 25, 2013
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Program Result
From 2009 to 2011, the Rural Policy Research Institute examined the impact of health reform proposals and the Affordable Care Act on rural people, places, and providers, and gave policy-makers unbiased, nonpartisan analysis.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result
Researchers at the Hilltop Institute evaluated the implementation of Maryland’s tax-based outreach initiative, the Kids First Act, and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or CHIP.
December 14, 2012
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Program Result
Researchers analyzed state legislation on childhood obesity for factors that predict enactment and to understand the relationship between enacted policies and obesity rates. They developed tools to help others analyze legislation.
July 11, 2012
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Program Result
Health Care for All, a Boston-based consumer advocacy organization, worked to give consumers a voice in implementing state health reform legislation that expanded insurance coverage in Massachusetts, and in reforming its payment systems.
August 1, 2011
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Program Result
Researchers at Columbia University conducted surveys of the general public and of social services experts to collect information to help policy-makers develop a standard of health insurance affordability.
May 18, 2011
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Program Result
Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
April 26, 2011
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Program Result
The Medicaid Leadership Institute is a fellowship program for state Medicaid directors to enhance their leadership capacity so their state programs can serve as national models for high-quality, cost-effective care.
January 28, 2011
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Program Result
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior conducts research on how laws, policies, practices, programs and other environmental influences at the state, community and school levels affect youth behaviors.
August 30, 2010
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Program Result
RWJF provided four grants to enable the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to enlist governors in tackling the childhood obesity epidemic and encourage state innovation in policies and programs.
August 15, 2010
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Program Result
Common Good Institute staff and researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health developed and promoted an administrative alternative, called health courts, to the current tort system for resolving medical malpractice cases.
