January 11, 2012
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Program Result
The Louisiana Public Health Institute supported a learning collaborative, comprised of 81 clinics, aimed at integrating behavioral and primary health care in metro New Orleans, after the city's health care system was decimated by Hurricane Katrina.
May 20, 2011
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
January 27, 2011
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Program Result
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
January 13, 2011
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Program Result
The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers created a citywide care management system, working with high emergency room and hospital users, providing transitional primary care aimed at moving patients to an appropriate primary care setting.
April 19, 2010
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Program Result
The Diabetes Initiative and its individual projects have contributed to the expansion of diabetes self-management at the state level and nationwide.
July 11, 2009
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Program Result
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
June 22, 2009
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Program Result
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.
July 14, 2008
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Program Result
Between December 2004 and June 2006, researchers from six medical centers, led by Dartmouth Medical School created a conceptual model on how to improve patient care and student training.
February 26, 2007
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Program Result
Making the Grade was a national program that supported state-local collaborations designed to expand comprehensive school-based health services for children and adolescents.
January 1, 2007
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Program Result
Starting in 1992, the United Hospital Fund of New York created the Primary Care Development Program, which organized a consortium of NYC foundations.
