November 19, 2012
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RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
April 11, 2012
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The Alzheimer's Association and the National Chronic Care Consortium partnered to develop and demonstrate a model of integrated health care and supportive services for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
April 25, 2011
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The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.
July 31, 2008
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Project staff at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., expanded a program that relied on volunteers to work with geriatric patients to prevent and reduce delirium, an underreported condition that can result in higher mortality and morbidity.
June 12, 2008
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The Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative partnered with area hospitals in a project designed to improve quality of care and patient safety. Project staff oversaw the production of a video about the initiative.
May 15, 2008
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If anything defines the transformation created by the palliative care initiative at the Pines it is the shift in the way staff members view their role in caring for patients, and the results of their greater involvement.
December 1, 2006
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and New York University Downtown Hospital worked together to develop and implement the Chinese Community Partnership for Health, designed to improve the health of Asian populations in Philadelphia.
October 1, 2004
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, assessed the effectiveness of a school-based condom-availability program when Philadelphia's school system launched a pilot AIDS prevention program in nine public high schools in 1992.
August 1, 2003
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During 1996 and 1997, researchers at the Economic and Social Research Institute, led by Jack A. Meyer, PhD, examined the St. Louis and Philadelphia hospital markets, which experienced extensive merger activity in the early 1990s, to assess whether horizontal integration combined with purchaser pressure can shrink the excess capacity in a hospital system.
August 1, 2002
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The Community Builders, a nonprofit real estate services organization in Boston, replicated a low-income housing model in Worcester, Mass.