March 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Alpha Center for Health Planning, Inc., in Washington (now called the AcademyHealth), a nonprofit policy institute, offered technical assistance to states and facilities participating in a federal program designed to keep struggling rural hospitals open.
June 1, 2000
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Program Result
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey examined why people use hospital emergency departments for medically nonurgent situations - a situation that occurs in as many as two-thirds of pediatric visits to emergency departments.
November 1, 2000
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Program Result
In 1998, Susan Bumagin, an independent researcher and writer located in Gloucester, Mass., investigated the issues involved in optimizing treatment of depression in the primary care setting.
July 14, 2008
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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.
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.
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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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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Program Result
The Treatment Research Institute compared the therapeutic practices of office-based clinicians who treat patients with substance use disorders to those of clinicians in an outpatient program at a community clinic.
