April 17, 2007
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Program Result
Cover the Uninsured Week, March 10-16, 2003, focused national media attention on the coverage problem and featured hundreds of town meetings, health fairs and other public events in communities across the nation.
April 4, 2007
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Program Result
Communities in Charge is a program to help broad-based community coalitions design and establish sustainable health care delivery systems.
April 6, 2007
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Program Result
In 2001, MaineHealth, a nonprofit health system serving southern and central Maine, established CarePartners, a health plan using a network of providers offering volunteer care to the uninsured.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result
Brandeis University's Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare planned, organized and conducted a conference on financing and delivering care for the poor and uninsured. They also published a book of papers on the same topic.
July 30, 2012
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine analyzed the impact of new health plans in Maine and Massachusetts that were designed to cover uninsured residents, as part of State Health Access Reform Evaluation, an RWJF national program.
January 31, 2011
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Program Result
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), Washington, worked with states to identify opportunities to extend health coverage to more people as a result of changes in the federal Medicaid program.
May 6, 2013
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Program Result
The Covering Kids & Families program was designed to find, enroll and retain eligible children and adults in federal and state health care coverage programs. Statewide and local coalitions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated.
April 25, 2013
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Program Result
From 2009 to 2011, the Rural Policy Research Institute examined the impact of health reform proposals and the Affordable Care Act on rural people, places, and providers, and gave policy-makers unbiased, nonpartisan analysis.
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.
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.
