March 25, 2013
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Researchers at McKinsey & Co. explored the potential of social impact bonds as a pay-for-performance means to finance the expansion of proven social service programs. Their study focused on two areas: homelessness and prisoner recidivism.
February 25, 2013
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Program Result
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living is a national program to develop affordable models of assisted living, with a focus on smaller and rural communities and low-income seniors.
January 7, 2013
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Program Result
Since 2001, More Than Wheels has helped nearly 1,500 low-income families in New England purchase reliable, fuel-efficient cars. The program also works to give people skills to improve their financial stability and their overall health and well-being.
February 15, 2012
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Program Result
Coastal Family Health Center staff was trained by Utah's Intermountain Healthcare on the "mental health integration model," which incorporates mental health care into primary care practice, and began to pilot the approach in its Gulf Coast clinics.
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.
December 1, 2011
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Program Result
Community Oriented Correctional Health Services expanded its juvenile offender program to an additional site and negotiated for a third. The program connects juvenile offenders with health services during and after detention.
October 4, 2011
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The Center for Health Care Strategies helped states create long-term-care insurance partnership programs that provide affordable coverage and financial protection for beneficiaries, generate business for insurers, and protect Medicaid budgets.
July 8, 2011
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Program Result
The Corporation for Supportive Housing created Taking Health Care Home, a national effort from 2002 to 2010 to expand the pipeline of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people.
June 27, 2011
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Program Result
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
June 27, 2011
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Program Result
Access HealthColumbus ran a pilot test of the Latino Health Connector, which provides health screening, navigation and educational services to Latino workers and their families in Columbus, Ohio.
