January 14, 2011
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Monadnock Family Health Services in Keene, N.H., launched In SHAPE, a wellness program to improve the physical health and quality of life for people with severe mental illnesses. In SHAPE participants work with trained health mentors.
November 12, 2004
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Program Result
The Plainfield Health Center, operating under the Plainfield Neighborhood Health Services, established a comprehensive school-based health center at Washington Elementary School in Plainfield, N.J., in 2000.
June 1, 1999
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The Grady Injury Prevention Program is located at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital where the project director, Donna Jones, M.D., is a public health pediatrician.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry worked to revise their prototype patient education program - Video Doctor - so that patients can operate it independently in their physicians' offices.
November 14, 2003
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Program Result
The State of Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment developed ways to remove barriers to the sustainability of school-based health centers in order to widen access to basic primary physical and mental health services.
November 14, 2003
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Program Result
From 1994 to 2000, the state of Connecticut expanded and enhanced its system of school-based health centers (SBHCs).
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.
June 1, 1999
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Harbor-UCLA Medical Center started its Injury Free Kids project in its Los Angeles' South Bay community in 1996 with a focus on two ethnically homogenous communities.
June 1, 1999
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The Children's Medical Center of Dallas established an Injury Free Coalition for Kids project using its own funds and additional funding.
April 18, 2011
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Program Result
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
