October 15, 2009
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Program Result
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.
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.
July 11, 2008
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Program Result
Project Access, which provides access to specialty and chronic health care for low-income uninsured people of Buncombe County, N.C., expanded its services from August 1994 through July 1998.
May 17, 2012
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Program Result
Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
February 18, 2010
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Program Result
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine tested whether using hand-held computers to answer questions about their health status and the reason for their current visit empowered African-American patients to take a more active role in their health care.
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.
