March 30, 2005
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The Ingham County Health Department, working in partnership with hospitals, employers, consumers and insurers in Lansing, Mich., created an organized system of care for county residents.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Georgetown University completed a study in early 2000 that suggested that the District of Columbia would be better served if health care for its uninsured and indigent populations were purchased through the private rather than the public sector.
January 16, 2004
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The West Virginia University School of Medicine at Morgantown, W.Va., and three state-sanctioned "Health Right" free clinics developed a project entitled Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved West Virginians.
January 31, 2004
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From 1994 to 1998, staff at the Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition implemented a program called Operation Access to increase access to ambulatory surgery services for medically indigent patients in San Francisco.
January 1, 2003
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During 2000 and 2001, Third Sector New England investigated how hospitals develop and implement their policies on providing free care to uninsured and underinsured patients.
March 1, 2003
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The Medical and Health Research Association of New York City refined its "pulse study" methodology, which uses billing information and other administrative databases to quickly assess emerging public health issues.
December 1, 2003
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During 2002 and 2003, the Neighborhood Health Clinic in Naples, Fla. created a new state-of-the-art Medication Room to improve the delivery of medications to its 12,000 clients.
June 22, 2009
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In 2004, four community health centers began screening their patients for depression and addictions. Patients were originally referred elsewhere for treatment, but the centers later hired social workers and a psychiatrist and began mental health treatment themselves.
August 1, 2006
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Shepherd's Hope, a faith-based, nonprofit organization in Orlando, Fla., that operates free walk-in primary care clinics staffed by volunteers, expanded the capability of four clinics and opened four new ones.
March 1, 2005
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The Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center provided free health care and dental services to the poor and working poor living in rural Pickens County, Ga.