February 6, 2009
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Program Result
Researchers with the Safety Net Assessment Project examined how individual- and community-level factors influence access to health care for low-income residents, and why their access varies in different metropolitan regions of the U.S.
October 15, 2009
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Program Result
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result
The University of Washington examined whether community-level characteristics, such as unequal income distribution and segregation in housing, affect the decision to purchase private health insurance.
January 16, 2004
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Program Result
Reach Out of Montgomery Country, a non-profit corporation in Dayton, Ohio, provided free care for medically underserved low-income individuals, after hours, at two existing community health centers in Dayton.
January 31, 2004
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Program Result
From 1994 to 1995, St. Vincent de Paul Village in San Diego, Calif., expanded the services provided by its medical center, which is part of St. Vincent de Paul Village's extensive homeless shelter.
January 16, 2004
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Program Result
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Foundation in Blue Hill, Maine developed its fledgling affiliated multi-site group practice, Peninsula Primary Care Association, for underserved residents of Hancock County.
January 16, 2004
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Program Result
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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Program Result
The Gift of Life Foundation worked to remove barriers to care for infants born to low-income mothers in Montgomery's four-county region and to help prevent babies from "falling through the cracks" of the health care system there.
January 16, 2004
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Program Result
Starting in August 1994, a managed network of volunteer medical providers called Commun-I-Care continued ongoing efforts to provide non-emergency health care to the uninsured poor in South Carolina.
January 1, 2004
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Program Result
The Church Health Center of Memphis led a community-wide effort to expand the "Memphis Plan," which the center had created in 1991 as an affordable health care program for lower-wage, uninsured working people.
