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The Safety Net Assessment Project: Factors Influencing Access to Health Care for Low-Income People

February 6, 2009 | Program Result Report

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.

Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans

October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report

RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.

Lansing, Mich., Community Mobilizes to Improve Health Care Access for Uninsured

March 30, 2005 | Program Result Report

The Ingham County Health Department, working in partnership with hospitals, employers, consumers and insurers in Lansing, Mich., created an organized system of care for county residents.

Ohio Volunteers Provide Health Care for Low-Income Patients

January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

San Diego Shelter Recruits Volunteers to Expand Health Services

January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

Maine Hospital Forms Rural Integrated Primary Care System to Attract Physicians and Broaden Access to Care

January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

Reach Out Projects Extend Outreach of Medical Care to West Virginians

January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

Project Expands Well-Baby Care for Infants Born to Low-Income Women

January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

A Network of Medical Volunteers Expands in South Carolina

January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

"Reach Out: Memphis" Expands Health Care Coverage for Uninsured

January 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.